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Uyuni - 2005 - 8:00
She wants to leave. He feels safe there. The barren landscape of
the bolivian town of Uyuni is cut by a transmission of Peruvian
radio. The tense situation of Latin America is in the violence of
the wind.
Andrés Denegri was born in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, in 1975, he studied Film Arts at Universidad del Cine.
He is an independent cinema and video director, following a way
of visual and narrative experimentation, most of his works has been
done in the field of videoart and documentary film. He also works
on video installations and creates live visuals whith Tekhne, an
argentinian group of electronic music. He also have his own AV project
with Luis Marte, a very well known electronic noise musician.
Hi is professor at Universidad del Cine (career of film directing),
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Master´s degree in
Electronic Arts) and Instituto Universitario Nacional de Artes (Visual
Arts).
His works has been recognized with the Leonardo Prize 2002 –
Category: Video (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes) and Best Audio-visual
Work 2001, (Asocición Argentina de Criticos de Arte). His
projects were supported by grants from the Fondo Nacional de las
Artes and the Secretaria de Cultura de la Nación. He made
an artists’ residency in Montreal, Canada, with the support
of Conseil Des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and in Ohio,
USA, at Wexner Center with the support of the Ohio Arts Council.
His Works on video has been shown in several intenational festivals
an exhibitions. He also has experience working as curator and coordinating
cualtural events for museums and cultural centers.
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