Ice-cream and Freedom

This video is a huge part of my artist's statement! :-) I consider this my work as video art, made by the expression meanings of animation. It is a part from the series of videos ”Hit It in Your Head!” where I’ve tried to create art-works with strong visual impact (as colours and images) but with an irrational message. In other words, these are videos, which don’t have to be understood with usual logical thinking, because there is nothing for understanding: their purpose is to provoke a process of thinking, but not for the video itself, but for something, which is not in the video. It is very individual process. I know; it is not easy to explain this, because being irrational: it is not for explanation, but for perceiving.

  • Nэno Bэlchэv
    Director
    "My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea"
  • Nэno Bэlchэv
    Writer
    "My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea"
  • Nэno Bэlchэv
    Producer
    "My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea"
  • Nэno Bэlchэv
    Drawings, Sounds, Editing and Animation
    "My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea"
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    comedy, videoart
  • Runtime:
    40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 10, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Bulgaria
  • Country of Filming:
    Bulgaria, United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • “The World After / Post-apocalyptic Notes”: Balkan video-art screening
    Sineu, Islas Baleares
    Spain
    May 5, 2023
  • XVI Cortoons Gandia International Animated Film Festival
    Gandia
    Spain
    October 22, 2020
  • IX semana por la soberania audiovisual
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    September 21, 2020
  • XXI Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira
    Cerveira
    Portugal
    September 16, 2020
  • III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza
    Bogota
    Colombia
    September 23, 2020
    South American Premiere
  • Balkan Can Kino film festival
    Kastro, Sikinos
    Greece
    August 23, 2020
  • XIV Video Art Miden
    Kalamatas, Messinia
    Greece
    August 19, 2020
  • CTL 59 SEGUNDOS - • VII Concurso Europeo de Creación
    Navarra
    Spain
    June 26, 2020
    Semi-Finalist
  • 20th FARGO Film Festival
    Fargo, ND
    United States
    March 17, 2020
  • 23rd International Encounters Traverse
    Toulouse
    France
    March 13, 2020
  • Sylhet Film Festival
    Sylhet
    Indonesia
    June 15, 2020
  • The BeBop Channel Content Festival
    New York
    United States
    June 4, 2020
  • PUFF: Pop Up Film Festival
    Ronan, MT
    United States
  • 10th International Mobile Film Festival
    Skopje
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
    December 6, 2019
  • Bratina film festival
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    October 11, 2019
    Semi-Finalist
  • Filmfest Bremen
    Bremen
    Germany
    September 20, 2019
    World Premiere
    Finalist
  • BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival
    Bilbao
    Spain
    September 20, 2019
    World Premiere
  • streetside cinema/
    Winston-Salem, NC
    United States
    September 20, 2019
    World Premiere
  • New Wave Film Festival
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    September 1, 2019
    World Premiere
Director Biography - Nэno Bэlchэv

Neno Belchev graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. He works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture and new media. Neno has made one full-length movie, four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from international video and film festivals in the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, India, Malaysia, Romania and Austria, as well as residency-grants in the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France and Portugal. His works are possession of Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), SAMSA (Sofia Arsenal Museum for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria); private collections in the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Spain, Ukraine and others. Mr. Belchev is one of the founders of the International Video Art Festival Videoholica, Varna http://www.nenobel.net/

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