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Punto y Raya Festival is the brainchild of the Barcelonan non-profit association

MAD [Moviment D’Alliberament Digital]. The proposal is as simple as universal: “No representation, only dots and lines. Can you take it?”. This was the challenge

launched in 2007 through our first call for entries (distributed entirely via the Internet). To our amazement, we received near 90 dot·line films from 20 countries.

The participants turned out to be animation students, renown animators, filmmakers, video-artists, special FX designers, scientists, architects, composers,

Vj’s, anthropologists, graphic designers… We soon realized that the concept’s universality had aroused the interest of various collectives; it was self-evident that

the dot and the line affected the way everybody interested in the creative process thinks of representation.

Under the motto “Back to basics”, Punto y Raya reflects upon what constitutes the

essence of form and movement, and explores these building blocks as ends in themselves. From Beijing to Vancouver, from Reykjavik to Buenos Aires, thousands

of people were able to attend the festival’s reruns organized in each city thanks to

our associated groups and venues.

In barely two years of existence, we had already gained the recognition of the experimental audiovisual community and the critic. An article published in Seattle

(WA·USA), has described our festival as “a broad spectrum of works of powerful imagery, which will make us wonder about the essence of time and space beyond

language itself”. And in 2008, the Japanese press gave us the title of “most abstract festival in the world”. Punto y Raya now constitutes a creative platform

based in over 35 cities all over the world.

It has four editions under its belt: · La Casa Encendida (Madrid 2007) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/mlce07_eng.php · Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona 2009) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/masm09_eng.php

· Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid 2011) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/mmrs11_eng.php

· CCCB (Barcelona 2012) | JUNIOR www.puntoyrayafestival.com/junior/mcccb12_eng.php

: W E B S I T E | www.puntoyrayafestival.com

: B L O G | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/blog (spanish · english)

All the information in the world of abstract art and various technological/scientific

applications related to abstraction.

: S O C I A L N E T W O R K S

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M A N I F E S T

This festival explores the ultimate synthesis of the form·movement duality in different spheres of art, science and thought. Due to the simplicity of its criteria,

it uses abstraction's prime matter to reveal the limitations and achievements of our representation systems.

The dot·line is the ultimate grain of our universe and of the sense we make of it;

it's the primordial identification of all that exists; the essence of that which is matterless but builds up matter, of what is imperceptible but allows us to

recognize all perceptible things.

But in the symbolic dimension the dot·line ceases to be an end in itself to become a representation of human thought.

The dot·line dwells beyond religion, sociocultural environment, age, gender and

language. We invite people from all over the world to explore the creative possibilities of these two basic elements, which make human expression and

communication possible.


: S C R E E N I N G S

: O F FICIAL COMPETITION

Through our online call for entries we received 94 dot·line films from over 20 countries. The following are the 52 selected to take part in the official competition; they were organized in

four 60-minute modules.

REEL

Rayas Blancas y Rojas | White and Red Lines Calpurnio 5’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Valencia·Spain

infra_

Judith Nothnagel 1’12’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2006 · Germay

mar de los humores | sea of humours

Juan Alcon Alegre_ANJú 1’00’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2000 · Madrid·Spain

Freedom of Perception Piero Glina

6’31’’ · b&w · cgi · 2005 · Karlsrühe·Germany

Tribute Angela Anastasia Diamos 2’06’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Los Angeles·CA,USA

De Sindh a Bezoar | From Sindh to Bezoar Iris Joval Granollers

1’37’’ · color · scratch · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain


(SoundToFrame 2.1) National Anthem Matthias Fitz 5’06’’ · color · cgi · 1999 · Berlin·Germany

Guerrilla Flies

Michele Castelli 4’08’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Palermo·Italy

Mercurius [1º prize] Bret Battey

6’10’’ · color · cgi · 2005 · UK

sense from nonsense Mateo Marin_ iamblichi

2’15’’ · b&w · 2006 · Berlín·Germany

Symmetry [finalist] Aleksandra Dulic · Kenneth Newby

2’00’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Vancouver·BC, Canada

Syclops Iván Bayo Vigo 1’40’’ · vid. comp. · b&w · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

Velocity [2º prize]

Iconish & Foraudiofans 6’20’’ · color · cgi · 2002 · Barcelona·Spain

Asperity [finalist] Tom Jobbins

1’58’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Bristol·UK

REEL

Circle [Audience Award] Laurie Gibbs 3’14’’ · b&w · cgi · 2006 · Bristol·UK

glia Nashla Abdelnour 3’29’’ · color · scratch · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

Study For TestTone And Retinal Burn [finalist]

Thomas Bey William Bailey 4’34’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Oklahoma·USA


Phollymorph Joaquin [Kino] Gil 3’04’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · Los Angeles·CA, USA

Esmolades | Sharp

Albert Callejo Amat 4’40’’ · color · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

21_Elastic_Pings Mattias Arvastsson

5’49’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2005 · Bergen·Norway

watch Iconish & Foraudiofans

4’58’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

Electriquity Ian Nesbitt

1’21’’ · color · drawing · 2007 · Nottingham·UK

sin contenido | without a content Xavier Guix Bonás 1’00’’ · color · video comp. · 1999 · Barcelona·Spain

Cinético Mantra

Rafael Miralles Sánchez 5’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona–Alicante·Spain

Bagatelle 1 Lou Cohen

2’01’’ · color · cgi · 2004 · Massachusetts·USA

Paciencia Uno: Karim | Patience One: Karim Javier Calvo Fernández

3’20’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

Terra Incognita Danielle Ye 6’30’’ · color · drawing · 2003 · USA

REEL

TaMura / MuraTa [finalist] Katsuyuki Hattori & Yusuke Shinmura_Goldenshit

8’00’’ · color · cgi · 2005-07 · Tokio·Japan

Ritmo Propio Tryand 3’17’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Berlin·Germany


RayasCurvasNew_MATKA Calpurnio 3’34’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Valencia·Spain

feeding the moon Mateo Marin_iamblichi 6’55’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · Berlin·Germany

The Ghost of John

Nancy Herman 1’ 33’’· color · cgi · 2007 · Pennsylvania·USA

guix-0

Xavier Guix Bonás

6’50’’ · b&w· video comp. · 1999 · Barcelona·Spain

4004

Gustavo Daniel Kortsarz

1’18’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · France

Videolightwork one Clemente Calvo 3’34’’ · color · op·art · 2007 · Zaragoza·Spain

tinto 1.0 Daniel Schulze 1’40’’ · vid. comp. · b&w · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

shhhhhhhh op#1 & op#2

Chiaki Watanabe_c.h.i.a.k.i 2’54’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · NY·USA

Punto y línea sobre el plano | Dot and Line on the plane

Dina Caball Olivet 1’31’’ · drawing · b&w · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

Mecanismo [finalist] Joaquin [Kino] Gil

4’56’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Los Angeles·CA, USA

REEL

raindrops

Iconish & Foraudiofans 3’00’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain


desequilibrio 1 equilibrio 0 Xavier Guix Bonás

3’10’’ · color · video comp. · 1999 · Barcelona·Spain

Bolle (IV·V·VI) | Bubles

Stefano Giannotti 8’48’’· color · vid. comp. · 2005 · Italy·Germany·Poland

Contrapunto | Counterpoint Laura Nillni & Ricardo Nillni

3’07’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · France

Vídeo nº 12 Iván Hernández Montero_Klee

4’30’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

Evolution John Osborne

2’30’’ · cgi · color · 2007 · Canada

Drawn 0.0 Solange Morello Z. 1’02’’ · b&w · drawing · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

Fleshtones

Philip Sanderson 2’53’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · Londres·UK

Puddle Jumper [3º prize] Chris Casady

2’10’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Los Angeles·CA, USA

Viento | Wind Bruno Bresani

0’55’’ · b&w · scratch · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain

loop 12/06 [finalist] Astrid Hagenguth 5’17’’ · color · scratch · 2007 · Braunschweig·Germany

Detritus Rubén Rivera 2’35’’ · b&w · drawing · 1991 · Puerto Rico

r.g.b.

Chiaki Watanabe_c.h.i.a.k.i 7’20’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · NY·USA


AWARDED FILMS

FIRST Prize

Mercurius

Bret Battey 6’10’’ · cgi · color · 2005 · UK

SECOND Prize

Velocity Iconish & Foraudiofans

2002 · 6’20’’ · cgi · color · Barcelona, Spain

THIRD Prize

Puddle Jumper Chris Casady

2’10’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · L.A., USA

Premio de la AUDIENCIA

Circle Laurie Gibbs 3’14’’ · b&w· cgi · 2006 ·

Bristol, UK

Obras FINALISTAS

Loop 12/06 Astrid Hagenguth 5’17’’ · color · scratch · 2007

Braunschweig, Germany

TaMura MuraTa Katsuyuki Hattori & Yusuke Shinmura aka Goldenshit

8’00’’ · color · cgi · 2005-07 Tokyo, Japan

Study for TestTone and Retinal Burn Thomas Bey William

Bailey 4’34’’ · color · cgi · 2007 Oklahoma, USA


Mecanismo

Joaquín Kino Gil 4’56’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 Los Angeles·CA, USA

Asperity Tom Jobbins 1’58’’ · b&w · 2007 Bristol, UK

Symmetry Aleks Dulic · Kenneth Newby

2’00’’ · color · cgi · 2007 Vancouver·BC, Canada

J U RY

L A R R Y C U B A [Atlanta·USA 1950]

Larry Cuba is widely recognized as a pioneer in the use of computers in animation art. His four films First Fig (1974), 3/78 (Objects and

Transformations) (1978), Two Space (1979) and Calculated Movements (1985) explore the visual perception of motion and musical structure, and are already classics.

In 1994, he founded the iotaCenter, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to abstract animation and visual music.

His ongoing software development project continues his research into the connection between algorithmic and choreographic patterns. www.iotacenter.org

B Ä R B E L N E U B A U E R [Klagenfurt·Austria 1950]

She studied film and stage design at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. In 1987 she moved to Munich·Germany where she currently lives and works. Bärbel has been making about 40 animation films and experimental films since 1980

and composing music and film-music since 1991. She serves as a member of juries for international animation, feature and

short-films festivals, teaches workshops and courses in Europe and US, and is currently working in her two new films: Airwaves and Morphs of Pegasus. www.spiralsmorphs.de

E U G E N I B O N E T [Barcelona·Spain 1954]

Eugeni Bonet is active in the areas of film, video and digital media as a writer, curator and artist. His selected videofilmography include Duchamp

(retard en vídeo)(1986-87), U-Session (2002) and Throw Your Watch to the Water (2004, 35mm feature film). Presently in phase of editing, he is working in a medium-length video,

eGolem, as the germ of a possible feature film. As a curator, his activities include the circulating programme Calculated Cinema (1999 and 2001) and

the film series Coming Soon: Lettrist Cinema, in between of discrepancy and uprising (2005).


L U K A S Z L Y S A K O W S K I [Gdansk, Poland 1974] As an artist and a designer, Lukasz explores the cybernetic relationship of

the human and the machine through the shared interface of the mediated screen.

Utilizing his own custom software that draws upon imagery created by himself and his partner Lael Gerhart, Lukasz developed real-time improvisational and

generative audio visual performances. In 2000 he started the video-impro-trio 242.pilots together with Kurt Ralske

and HC Gilje, which realized the performance “Live in Bruxelles” in 2002. In this context Lukasz created his piece “Solo”. http://lukasz.wildlifeanalysis.org

L A U R A G I N É S & P E R E G I N A R D _ L A B O R A T O R I U M [Girona · Palma de Mallorca, Spain 1975]

Pere Ginard studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and Laura Ginès, Art and Design at l’Escola Massana (linked to the UB). In 2001 they establish their production micro-company Laboratorium. Since then they

have combined the realisation of experimental films with various illustration and graphic design works.

They have participated as curators in Xinacittà, an open-air screening of quality animation in Barcelona. http://laboratorium.cat

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RETROSPECTIVE SECTION [1923 -2006] 16mm

An amazing tour-de-force through over 80 years of the history of cinema, featuring pioneer works in abstract animation from its very beginnings to cgi pieces from the

60’s and more contemporary works created with top notch software. On DVD, 16 & 35 mm.

Norman McLaren

Mosaic | Mosaico 1965 · 5' · 16mm · color · op·art · Canada

D·Fuse

Earthquake Weather 2005 · 4’26’’ · color · cgi · UK

Pierre Hébert Opus 1

1964 · 4’ · b&n · 16mm · scratch · Canada

Jordan Belson Allures 1961 · 7’30’’ · 16mm · color · op·art · USA

Oskar Fischinger Studie nº 9 | Stufy nº 9 1931 · 3’ · b&w · drawing · Germany


Lukasz Lysakowski Solo 2002 · 4’31’’ · color · cgi · USA

Viking Eggeling

Symphonie Diagonale | Diagonal Symphony 1923-24 · 8’ · b&w · 35mm · Germany

Bärbel Neubauer Mondlicht | Moonlight

1997 · 4’ · color · scratch · Switzerland

Larry Cuba Two Space

1979 · 7’30’’ · b&w · 16mm · cgi · USA

Chiaki Watanabe_c.h.i.a.k.i One Over Three

2006 · 7’ · b&w · cgi · USA

Oskar Fischinger Kreise | Circles 1933 · 2’ · color · Germany

Len Lye

Free Radicals 1979 · 5' · b&w · 16mm · scratch · UK

Alexander Rutterford Monocodes

2000 · 3’13’’ · color · cgi · UK

Robert Breer A man and his dog out for air

1957 · 3’ · b&w · drawing · France

James Whitney Lapis 1963-66 · 10’ · color · 16mm · USA

Amit Pitaru & James Paterson_Insertsilence August 16th 2001 · 2’52’’ · b&n · cgi · NY·USA

Larry Cuba

Calculated Movements 1985 · 6’20'' · color · 16mm · USA

Norman McLaren Synchromie | Synchromy

1971 · 7’30’’ · color · 16mm · op·art · Canada


PYRFORMANCES Realtime dotline imagery. Vj’s are invited to play with the new dimensions emerged from the

audience’s interaction, plain chance and the venue’s characteristics.

M I A M A K E L A _ S O L U R A U L S A N T O S _ S U P E R C I N E X C E N E

This renown media + live cinema artist, teacher, investigator and cultural activist from Finland, began her career in 2001 performing visuals as part of the audiovisual improvisational band DADATA. After its dissolution she

continued as SOLU, collaborating with many experimental musicians such as Heidi Mortenson and Dj Rupture. Since then she has performed in several

festivals around the globe, including Zagreb Biennale of Music, Cimatics-festival [Brussels], the Museum of Contemporary Art [Helsinki, 2003], SONIC ACTS [Amsterdam], SONAR festival [Barcelona], AVIT [Birmingham],

MAPPING [Geneve], TRANSIT_MX [Mexico City] and Live Cinema Nights [San José]. In 2004 she launched dorkbot.org in Barcelona presenting “People who do

strange things with electricity”. Her latest occupation is PUBLIC.BCN, which concentrates all her audiovisual activities under the same label [workshops,

events, AVcommunity, site-specific projects, ideas....] www.solu.org

This gifted producer and composer began his career as a DJ at the mythical Maravillas in Madrid. After playing drums for Los Planetas in 95-96 and

keyboards for Mercromina, he launches his solo projects as Supercinexcene, publishing several singles for the record company Yo Gano, Tu Pierdes featuring artists like Najwa and Mastreta, among many others.

Artistic producer of bands such as 995, Sapiens, Doble H, Malinche, Rekord Your Fucking Name and Najwa [he’s produced her last three albums] Raúl Santos has also collaborated in 2006-7 with The Cabriolets [Diego Postigo,

Bimba Bosé and David Unison]. www.myspace.com/rsantos

http://www.solu.org/

http://www.myspace.com/rsantos


A N T O N I N D E B E M E L S & H A N S D E M A N _ F O T O N

Brussels-based leftfield collective experimenting with electronic music,

performances, installations, new media and off-limits partying. Through a physical approach to phenomena like sound and light Foton creates parallel worlds where people in the audience become submerged participants rather

than passive subjects.

For Punto y Raya will create an intense audiovisual experience where music and images are not conceived for the ears and eyes only, but for the whole body.

Antonin De Bemels is a video and audio artist. Interested in experimental electronic music as well as contemporary dance and video art, his main subjects are movement, the human body, and the dynamic relationship

between sounds and images. He has made a dozen of short videofilms - quite a few of them being awarded - and creates soundtracks and visuals for dance

and theatre pieces. His vj-performances are like a visual diary, making a connection between his work as a video artist and his everyday life: on one side carefully chosen and processed images from dancers and other

"performing bodies", on the other side spontaneously taken images from his surroundings and from his own defective body. From unity to multiplicity, from light corpuscles to body parts, from abstraction to figuration, from the

inner self to the outside world, and back.

Hans De Man a.k.a Antz wears many masks: Foton founder, concert & party promotor, multimedia curator, installation artist and dj. The recurring themes in his activities are a taste for pushing borders and the transmission

of positive energy. In his sound installations an implicit interactivity is incorporated, forcing the audience to become one with the installation and

interact from within, rather than to start an externally triggered dialogue. As dj Antz he focuses on intense and physical sounds and rhythms, turning an ordinary dj-set into a sonic performance. The sounds he chooses go from

minimal to maximal, from horizontal to vertical, from abstract ambient to brutal 'core'-madness. www.foton.be

www.periactes.be/antonindb [email protected]

http://www.foton.be/

http://www.periactes.be/antonindb


CONFERENC ES

A G U S T Í N G A R C Í A C A L V O Either Line or Dot

His conference confronts the definition of a straight line by two dots with the creation of a dot by two straight lines, and fathom thereof the problems in the

relations between ideas and reality. Agustín García Calvo [Zamora·Spain 1926]

He is an emeritus cathedratic in Classical Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Thinker, linguist, writer, translator, poet... Awarded with the Premio Nacional de Ensayo 1990, Premio Nacional de Literatura

Dramática 2003 and Premio Nacional de Traducción 2006. Author of numerous works of diverse genres. (His complete works have been

published by Editorial Lucina, Zamora). It’s worth to mention his endeavour to continue practising the Socratic method by talking directly with his audience in the many issues of his “Tertulia Política” at the Ateneo de Madrid,

every Wednesday at eight thirty p.m.

J O S É A N T O N I O M I L L Á N

The Graphics representation of Language in the Western World The passionate tale of the various trials at achieving the perfect notation of

human breath.

José Antonio Millán [Madrid·Spain 1954] Linguist interested in signs (about which he published ¡No! and ¡Contra!,

Gustavo Gili) and in etymology (El candidato melancólico. De dónde vienen las palabras, cómo viajan, por qué cambian, y qué historias cuentan, RBA). Regarding punctuation he wrote Perdón imposible. Guía para una puntuación

más rica y consciente (RBA) and an introduction for children: Me como esa coma. ¡Glups! Parece que la puntuación es importante... (Serres) His website

verses about this and many other things: http://jamillan.com

http://jamillan.com/

http://jamillan.com/


WORKSHOP

" M A N Y M E T E R S O F F I L M " by Laboratorium

Addressed to school children, this open workshop proposes the realization of

one or various collective micro·films emulating the technique "direct·on·film animation" that was popularized in the mid·fifties by artists like Norman Mclaren, Len Lye or Stan Brakhage.

Pere Ginard studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and Laura Ginès, Art and Design at l’Escola Massana (linked to the UB). In 2001 they

establish their production micro-company Laboratorium. Since then they have combined the realisation of experimental films with various illustration

and graphic design works. They have participated as curators in Xinacittà, an open-air screening of

quality animation in Barcelona. http://laboratorium.cat


ORGANIZED BY

MAD is a non-profit association based in Barcelona. For over nine years we've been working

on cultural engineering through projects development involving art, science and technology. We curate experimental cinema & animation screenings, as well as live cinema

performances at various venues in Spain and abroad. We also develop social projects such as the Sound Library for the “Digital Alphabetization Plan at the Catalonian Penal Centers”, coordinated by the Justice Department.

: we devise new ways of maximizing technologic resources and applications in various

contexts. : we digitally release documents/works through the development of a creative and collaborative platform addressed to all audiences.

: we facilitate the access of minority groups to various resources and tools through the organization of workshops and the development of new technological applications. : mad is based on the Internet, where it keeps record of its various projects and actions.

MAD are: Ana Santos. BA in Graphic Design and Photography. She works as a freelance art director and web designer. Founder member of MAD.

Nöel Palazzo. Feature film and animation serial's writer. She also writes narrative, mostly sci-fi and gothic fantasy novels. She has a couple of internationally awarded films and

occasionally lectures and writes articles as a film critic. Since 2008 she's been a member of the iotaCenter’s Advisory Council (Los Angeles, CA) and coordinator of the Spanish speaking

community at the Visual Music Village. [email protected] | www.mad-actions.com

WITH THE SUPP ORT OF :

We heartfully thank: Eugeni Bonet | Jaume Bosch | Larry Cuba | Helena Febrés | Pere Ginard | Laura Ginés |

Laboratorium | Lukasz Lysakowski | Bärbel Neubauer | Lluís Ribalta Coma-Cros | Javier Romañach.

http://www.mad-actions.com/

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