Cecilia Traslaviña
Directing
Biography
Animator, visual artist, and Master of Literature from Pontifical Javeriana University, she works as a professor and researcher in the Visual Arts Department at Pontifical Javeriana University. Her works have been selected at numerous national and international film festivals. Her work has different approaches: a personal strand where she explores memories and the unconscious through non-linear narratives in line with visual arts techniques. She has also collaborated with multiple artists and audiovisual schools in the creation of collective works, addressing themes from an experimental perspective. She has curated programs on experimental animation in Colombia and Latin America that have been presented in multiple venues around the world. She is an active member of the Moebius-Animación portal, whose objective is to amplify the voices of Latin American experimental animation.
Known For
The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.
Song of the Flies
A little girl devises an innovative scheme to reconnect with her imprisoned mother during Christmas.
Maybe I'll Find You in a Robbery
The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.
Sailor's Grave
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Almas santas, almas pacientes
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Instrucciones de domesticación
Tulia finds a suitcase containing a series of mysterious drawings, notes and diagrams. Without knowing how, they appear in her house and from then on her life begins to change, she loses the idea of past and present, of sleep and wakefulness. Tulia has to find an order for the images and prevent the universe from suffering an irreparable change. This film navigates between reality and fiction, between humour and tragedy, to immerse us in the question of time and error.
El tiempo del error
Movements in the Basement deals with the relationship between a woman and her house. The house is at the same time refuge and prison in which seductions and rejections are woven daily. The film is a visual answer to the book of poems: "Estancia y doméstica" by Chilean writer Mariela Malhue Moreno.
Movements in the Basement
Fabricia enters an abandoned building and her presence seems to bring the place to life. But soon she discovers the space is dominated by strange machines that trap her inside. Only the power of her unique imagination will help her make her way out.
Fabricia
León Prozak lends his head to Mephistopheles for some circus numbers. Theses scenes, animations made by different plastic artist, are the centre of the film, the pleasure of paint on time. The animated paintings cover a wide range of topics, from politics to erotisicm, expressing their vision of the world.