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Julio Soto invisible cities – 6:20 – 2003
Imagine a post-apocaliptic generic urban center. Imagine interiors
covered with vines, water, vegetation and flies swarming around.
Imagine an omnipotent camera, ubiquitous, panning and dolling through
the landscape.
Julio Soto – the possibility of Utopia -18 minutos
2003 Espanha
Is a complex series of visual interpretations of twintieth century
architetural and ideological utopian experiments. Through digital
and narrative manipulation of the rhetoric of film.
Soto questions the ideal cities of the later half of the twentieth
century and at the same time envisions the future of cities by examining
the desire-driven cities of the past. The fantastical quality of
his work is derived not only from his archeological research of
history but also from his recreation of the discovered images through
computer technology.
Julio Soto zero Gravity 2003 5:20 Spain
Is a vídeo of computer generated fluids that feel real yeat
disturbingly unnatural, simmilarly to a synthetic aquarium in zero
gravity conditions. These fluids seem to respond to natural laws
such as gravity, friction, Newtonian fiels, collisions, etc, while
incidentally taking a life on their own.
The imagey loosely evokes human organs pulsating to the beat of
the hypnotic- repetitive sound track in a kind of literally visceral.
Julio Soto is a film producer/ director
who works and
lives in New York.
His films titled "Invisible Cities" and "Possibility
of Utopia" have received international recognition and awards
such as: Best Film at the 2002 Brooklyn International Film Festival,
First Prize at NAP Video Biennial in Pasadena and the Jury Award
at the 2003 Media Arts Festival Japan. His work has been shown extensively
at film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Viper Basel, Impakt,
Oberhausen, Hamburg, Nemo and Kasseler to name a few.
His talent and vision also plays a key role in advertising, music
video and documentary projects for agencies like McCann Erikson,
Propaganda Films, Ogilvy, Bates USA, Grey Advertising and FCB.
In 2004, he co-founded Luna Pictures , an independent production
company based in New York. Luna Pictures has received he EU Media
Plus Programme Grant to develop " Radiophobia ", a touching
documentary film about the radiation - contaminated areas around
the
Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine.
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