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Night Plotters

Official video for SabaSaba Night Plotters, from Unknown City on
Maple Death Records.
"L'abbandono è crollo disarticolazione" (Abandonment is collapse disarticulation) A. Zanzotto, Conglomerati, Fu Marghera(?)
This video is a poetic attempt to reclaim a collapsed landscape through generative dance, a dissemination process here performed by a female body continuously seeking new reconfigurations, embedding the knot nature-culture.
The main location at the periphery of Venice, a sort of subtext of the postmodern social construction of nature, is a public park born in the 70s, a crosshatch between the city and the non-city, where I grew up in the 80s, shot with 360 camera. On top of this, different landscape views of anthropogenic and environmental disturbance are superimposed: artificially consolidated salt marsh in the Northern lagoon filmed in spring, extremely arid mudflat of intertidal areas in summer, ending with a dramatic paradigm of human extractive industry and quintessential classic of irreversibly altered landscape of North-East Italy, Porto Marghera in winter by night, with its petchems units. Marghera = Mar ghe g’era (dialect, stands for mar c’era = the sea, there was) but the sea is no more, we have sand and cement instead.

  • Sara Bonaventura
    Director
  • Laura Pante
    Choreographer
  • Laura Pante
    Performer
  • SabaSaba
    Music
  • Maple Death
    Label
  • Project Type:
    Performance, Installation, 360 Video
  • Genres:
    screendance, experimental, 360, music video
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 9, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sara Bonaventura

Sara Bonaventura is an Italian visual artist and educator.
She works at the intersection between visual and media arts, lens based media and new media. As independent videographer she has been collaborating with performers and musicians, directing clips, ads, curating visuals.
Her video works have been screened worldwide; at the NYC Anthology Film Archives, the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Asolo Art Film Festival, at Studio 303 for the Montreal Nuit Blanche, the Miami New Media Festival, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, at Rome MACRO Museum, the Cinemateca do MAM in Rio for Dobra Festival, the MOMus in Thessaloniki for Videolands curated by Miden Festival, the itinerant Time is Love screening curated by Kisito Assangni, the Mexico City CODEC festival, Other Cinema at San Francisco ATA Gallery, the LA Echo Park Film Center, the Boston Cyber Arts Gallery and more.
She won the Veneto Region Award at the 10th Lago Film Fest and a merit for the 2019 Sino per NIIO Illumination Art Prizes, with one of her work displayed in one of the world biggest public screen in Hong Kong; she has been selected for several residencies, i.e. in 2016 by Joan Jonas at Fundacion Botin (Santander, Spain). Recently selected for the ISEA 2019, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, in Gwangju, South Korea. Her debut feature documentary, Forest Hymn for Little Girls, was screened in several festivals, the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Ortigia Film Festivals among others.

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