Rosa Barba
Rosa BARBA (1972, Italy) was educated in theatre and film in Germany, first in Erlangen and then at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She has been expanding her knowledge actively since, through residencies and a doctorate. Barba’s body of work consists of films, installations, performances and publications. Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, and often focus on film’s materiality, composition, natural landscapes and man-made interventions in the environment. She has received multiple awards and exhibits in galleries and museums in Europe and beyond. For IFFR 2021, Barba created the performance installation Voice Engine.
Filmography
(selection) Cinorama (2000, instal), Panzano (2000, short), Pirate Spaces (2002, instal), Split Fields (2003, instal), Floating Moons (2003, instal), Machine Vision Seekers (2004, instal), Parachutable (2004, instal), It’s Gonna Happen (2005, short), Erased Note (2006, short), Outwardly from Earth’s Center (2006, short), Waiting Grounds 1/3 (2007, instal), Western Round Table 1/3 (2007, instal), They Shine (2007, short), Empirical Effect (2010, short), Bending to Earth (2015, short), From Source to Poem (2016, short), Disseminate and Hold (2016, short), Enigmatic Whisper (2017, short), Aggregate States of Matters (2019, short), Voice Engine (2021, performance)
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Outwardly from Earth’s Center
In this film, we see how the inhabitants battle for their lives when it becomes apparent that their island is being swallowed up by the forces of n
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Panzano
The makers have investugated an ‘almost’ normal family to see what schizophrenia looks like in everyday life.
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They Shine
The Mojave desert. Endless rows of solar mirrors slowly revolve, reflecting their surroundings. A voice recounts local stories.
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Aggregate States of Matters
Rosa Barba shows the slow disappearance of a glacier and its effect on the Quechuan population in the Andes of Peru.
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From Source to Poem
Artistic take on the world’s largest archive of audio cassettes, wax discs, vinyl, television, film, video and hard disks. What will the
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Disseminate and Hold
Disseminate and Hold tracks the Minhocão, or ‘giant earthworm’: an elevated highway in São Paulo. It subtly connects Braz
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Bending to Earth
Aerial shots survey what appears to be a dystopian future, revealed as man-made storage sites for radioactive waste in Rosa Barba’s atmospheric 35m
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Machine Vision Seekers
Kinetic film installation projects script instead of film. To be seen in TENT.
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Mouse on Mars
‘Electro-kraut-dub-grind’ by innovative techno Germany band that already draws big crowd in England and performs with the germany artis
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Empirical Effect
Lyrical portrait of Vesuvius and the inhabitants of the Red Zone. Measurements, maps and aerial shots try to capture what in fact is always uncerta