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About the Beginning emerges from an artistic co-creation playground designed to mirror the poetry of things that can't be replicated.

Somewhere in the Balkans, Anna explores her power of intuition while road-tripping with her old friend Armando, an amateur video-blogger who tries too hard. When Anna starts to wonder if friendships have an expiry date, she meets Goran, a famous actor facing a personal crisis. Their brief encounter sparks in Goran a mysterious vision, guiding him to meet "H", a silent man who might have the answers he is looking for.

With: Arnolda Noir | Frano Mašković | Armando Alvarado | César Julio Ortega

A young aspiring chair designer succumbs to crippling paranoia as he sculpts an apparently normal chair that nobody can sit on. Blinded by obsessive dreams of fulfilling his career, the sculptor struggles to balance a healthy family life as the chair phenomenon globally spirals out of control.

• Sundance 2024 | Development Track Finalist
• Birmingham Film & TV Market 2023
• FEST New Directors New Films | Filmarket Hub Award | Pitching Forum 2023
• Development residency FemArt | by the Romanian Association of Women in Cinema (ARFC)

Poetic interpretations about the concepts of change and permanence, transport technology, and tourism economics, suggesting important social and ecological implications to be further discussed. Shot in Yucatán, Mexico, in spaces that will be forever changed with the construction of the new Mayan Train.

With the support of Fondo Municipal para las Artes Escénicas y la Música, Mérida, México, and Oso Story House.

Exhibitions:

• Loop Festival City Screenings | Galería Uxval Gochez | Barcelona, SPAIN | November 2024
  - with support from Amphion Finland and Werner Music Barcelona -
• Art Fest Mexico-Paris | Place des Vosges 23 | Paris, FRANCE | June 2022
  - with support from The European Commission and The Ministry of Culture of France -
• Screenings and Q&A with the artists | Centro Cultural Olimpo | Merida, MEXICO | November 2019

Fata Morgana: A complex form of upper mirage visible in a narrow band just above the horizon.

Two broken patients of a renowned psychologist are invited to his surrealistic wedding, where each will find, in an unorthodox and boundary-pushing manner, what they long for.

Written by Andrés Cerdá & Paco Limón.

Etiäinen: "an image, doppelgänger, or just an impression that goes ahead of a person, doing things the person in question later does.”

An audiovisual piece that explores the feeling of auto-exiling oneself: leaving behind the loneliness of the city to confront the strange vastness of nature. Living between memories and premonitions of both worlds.

Music by Betaphony | Concept by Amulio Jose Espinosa, Cesar Julio Ortega & Betaphony

Interplanetary propaganda, a message to the alienated humanity.

Music by Nominee

Transmedia Project curated and created by César Julio Ortega.

Author's Diary: Collective memories from a community of artists creating under a single identity.

Exhibitions: Art Fest Mexico-Paris | Place des Vosges 23 | Paris, FRANCE | June 2022