Private Project

RAW Against The Machine

A brief raw encounter between machines and nature as a trigger to reflect and provoke a dialogue about the contemporary state and contrasts between speed, pause, nature, machines, reality, time, evolution and decay.

  • Mariano Sosa Martini
    Director
    As Seen on TV, Ellos, Turns, Patrimonio
  • Mariano Sosa Martini
    Writer
    As Seen on TV, Ellos, Turns, Patrimonio
  • Mariano Sosa Martini
    Producer
    As Seen on TV, Ellos, Turns, Patrimonio
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Social, Nature
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Mariano Sosa Martini

Mariano Sosa Mariano Sosa is a film programmer, cultural entrepreneur and award winning film and TV writer and director from Argentina, with multimedia and creative projects in Europe and Latin America. He is also a journalist, writer and founder of Ciclos de Cine Cercano, an international cultural initiative for the education of audiences and the promotion of Latin American cinema in the region.
He is the programmer of the official competition of FECICH Film Festival in Chile and was the Director of Muestra Cine Europeo de SeCine Segovia in Spain from 2020.

Mariano works also as a correspondent from international cultural events in Europe and Latin America. In 2017 he was recognized by Multimedios Uno, Mendoza, as one of the personalities of the year in culture for his work in cinema. He was also recently selected to the Valparaiso Locarno Industry Academy International with his project Ciclos de Cine Cercano.

His first short film, ¨As Seen on TV¨, premiered at the Cartagena International Film Festival in Colombia, FICCI57 (cine en los barrios) and was the Winner of the Best Latin American Short Film Award at Lúdico, Latin American Short Film Festival in Costa Rica, 2017. The project was also selected for the International Panorama at Manchester International Short Film and Animation Festival in the UK and was finalist at the Pakistan International Film Festival 2018. It has also been selected and screened at festivals in Argentina , Cyprus, Norway, Perú (Festival de Cine de Lima), Romania and USA.
He has completed three new film projects in Valparaíso, Chile, ¨Ellos¨ (2019) - Selected for the Official competition at GRABA Iberoamerican Festival 2019, Argentina, Nominated for the CIne.Ar Award at GRABA and Official Selection for the Festival Cinema Ciudad de México 2019 - ¨Giros¨ (2019) - Official Selection Vancouver International Film Festival and Latin American Panorama Sao Paolo, Brazil 2019 and Patrimonio (2020), his first creative documentary, Official competition DOCSValparaiso 2020 and International competition Iberoamerican Film Festival Miami 2021.
RAW Against the Machine is his first project of a set of experimental films documenting raw basic encounters between a camera an its surroundings as a return to the basics of audiovisual creation, and this is also his first production in France.

He has also both, a long documentary and a feature film project currently under development and a number of individual and collective TV series currently in creation.

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Director Statement

In a moment when our perception and relationship with nature, reality and machines are dangerously getting compromised and redefined by the unstoppable influence of technology, I propose to return and explore the power of raw and direct audiovisual encounters between a camera a its surroundings. I see this as an imperative contemporary experiment to get back to basics and provoke the recovery of our intrinsic need of time and space for reflection about our present and concepts like time, nature, evolution, speed and decay.