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dCaucasus

A digital bucolic interpretation of the overwhelming beauty of the Caucasus Mountains.

  • santiago Delgado-escribano
    Director
  • santiago Delgado escribano
    Writer
  • santiago Delgado escribano
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 29, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    400 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Georgia
  • Shooting Format:
    Video HD mpeg-4
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • MoMa Tbilisi
    Tbilisi
    Georgia
    November 12, 2020
Director Biography - santiago Delgado-escribano

Santi Delgado, from La Mancha, is an artist specialized in new media. Trained in California, he completed his first studies at the Los Angeles City College and obtained a bachelor's degree from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1999. He has been teaching at Miguel Hernández University in Elche for 9 years. He is CEO of Studio Art Fair International Ltd, in Tallinn. He has been director of the international contemporary art fair Studio Lisbon 018. He is currently secretary of the Association of Contemporary Artists of Alicante, ACOA. Director of Alicante’s video art festival. Its most relevant publication is the book Arte / Ideario Video (Createspace Independent Pub. ISBN-10: 9781505931921 ISBN-13: 978-1505931921). He has shown his works, among other places in: The IVAM, Valencia; Centro del Carmen, Valencia; La Lonja, Alicante; Local Project Art Space & The Local NYC in New York; DTE Studio, NYC NY; LACCDA, Los Angeles, California; Aural Gallery, Alicante et cetera.

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Director Statement

deCaucasus

Santi Delgado 2020

It is a complex challenge to create a work of art from a subject whose beauty is immeasurable and impossible to overcome. The challenge is aggravated if the nature of the subject of the piece is antithetical to the nature of the medium that tries to abstract its essence. At this point into the millennium, videoart production relies heavily on computational tricks, on digital effects, on the deformation of reality through technical resources that return synthetic objects that work well in our sophisticated and denaturalized societies. So, it is perfectly understandable the paralyzing shock in the mind of the artist when confronting the sublime beauty of the Caucasus´ peaks. But in the end everything was achieved: you could not recreate a typical romantic landscape; you could not make a documentary descriptive piece. Only task was to apprehend the impression in the mind of a digital being. The result is deCaucasus: How to manipulate the color if the color was already perfect? How to modify the times if time was static and eternal? How to escape from the perfect photograph, from the perfect framing, from absolute beauty? How to work the audio if the silence of the place was a balm?