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Proves de FOC amic (friendly fire tests)

The images of the Catalan tradition of "correfoc" (fire-runs), where people are chased by fire from gangs of "devils", here are transformed into a bombardment of light and color in the city.

I imagine those who run friendly fire and those who run when enemy fire comes during the bombing of any city, from anywhere, at any time...

The chaotic montage turns the representations into the energy of an "audiovisual gun" with the aim of "the temporary assassination of the viewer's normative consciousness" in a small tribute to Richard Sharits.
Dedicated to Beldina, a girl I met in Sarajevo after the war and to all the people who told me about the horror of the nights waiting for enemy fire to illuminate the city.

This piece predates the bombing of Gaza but is also dedicated to them.
From "run friendly fire" to "run! Enemy fire is coming".

PROJECTION
This project can be shown in two ways: as a single-channel projection and as a projection on a building in a public space (as in the example of the trailer) to remind us of a light bombardment over the city.

  • Rrose Present
    Director
  • Rrose Present
    Producer
  • Oriol Perucho
    Music
  • Terrassa Crea
    production support
    Institution
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Proves de FOC amic
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 24, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • New Year/New Work Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    April 23, 2024
    Mundial
    oficial selection
  • Independent New York Art Fair
    New York
    United States
    May 9, 2024
    selection
  • BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival
    Bilbao
    October 15, 2024
    Bilbao
    Selection
  • "La fàbrica d'imatges"
    Terrassa
    Spain
    June 30, 2024
    Spain
Distribution Information
  • The Filmmakers Cooperative, NYC
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: Theatrical
Director Biography - Rrose Present

"The films of Rrose Present are like haiku: precise, ambiguous, and deeply resonant." Daniel Barnett

BioRrose Present was born in Barcelona. She graduated in Fine Arts at the UB, Seneca scholarship in audiovisuals at the UPV/EHU, Master of Philosophy in Contemporary Art at the UAB. She written in images from a critical "poetic" gaze, with a double sense of reality: the PRESENTIAL, using the body as a tripod for her emotions, and the RE-PRESENTATIONAL, with the series of "video 'without camera' reinterprets 'world camera"'.
After a very conceptual period, another adventure begins. She abandons the literalness of images to penetrate medial and formal experimentation, with the conscious and unconscious paths that these open.
Since 2016 he has been part of the distributor The Filmmakers Cooperative NYC with which he has been part of several programs.
Her works have been seen at many experimental film and video festivals in countries such as: Brazil, Italy, Portugal, France, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Germany, Cuba, India, Turkey, Greece, France, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bolivia, Lithuania, Iran, Peru.

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