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Carlos Casas

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Biography

Carlos Casas (Barcelona, 1974) is a Spanish artist whose practice encompasses film, sound and visual arts. Since the beginning of his career, Casas has been extending his explorations in multiple branches, from documentary film conceived for the movie theater to live-editing, through photography and drawing to multimedia installations, transformation of pre-existing environments and record publishing. His works have been exhibited by international institutions such as the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern in London, Fondation Cartier, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou in Paris, NTU CCA Singapore, HangarBicocca and La Triennale in Milan, CCCB Barcelona, Matadero Madrid, GAM Turin, Bozar and Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. His films have been screened and awarded at prestigious international festivals such as the Venice Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Since 2022 Carlos Casas has been the programme director of the Fabrica research center in Treviso.

Known For

Swan Lake
6.0

Composed of footage from Central Asian film archives, Swan Lake addresses the period running from a decade before to a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film includes familiar visual markers of the era: long queues outside shops, popular television programs hosted by healers and hypnotists, ballerinas performing Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (1876). This was a typical television intermezzo in the late Soviet empire, when high culture often filled the airwaves during moments of political uncertainty, whether the death of another elderly leader or an emergency declared in Moscow. What may be less familiar to Western audiences is the footage drawn from Central Asian films of the same period. These fragments extend the usual visual aesthetics of perestroika into a different regional context, introducing other ethnicities, landscapes, and urban spaces into what is often remembered as a predominantly Russian narrative of late-Soviet culture.

Swan Lake

2025Movie