Isabela Bianchi
Directing
Biography
She is a Brazilian visual artist and documentary filmmaker living in Spain. In 2017, she moved to Madrid to study documentary filmmaking at the Madrid Film School (ECAM), where she made her first short film Wan ju wu (2019), which won an Honourable Mention in the international category at the Curta Cinema Festival in Rio de Janeiro. In the following year, she made her second documentary Madrid, mala vida, which was screened at festivals such as DocLisboa, DOK Leipzig and the Festival dei Popoli. In her work, she flirts between pure aesthetics and audiovisual trash. She is currently exploring new ways of constructing images through film editing, bringing together her previous experiences as a VJ and mixing recording devices.
Known For
Over a hundred years since the publication of the sociological text, La mala vida en Madrid, that coined the term in Spain, what does it mean to be a ‘lowlife’? Eye-catching, almost otherworldy and unashamedly provocative, this commentary on class, sexuality and urban stratification appropriates the pathologising label of ‘Other’ to shine a light on the explosion of ‘lifeforms’ in the Spanish capital today. Featuring the clever use of 8mm to create a surreal, pseudo-documentary look that draws in and distances simultaneously, Madrid, Bad Life is a sophisticated and thought-provoking high-concept work.
Madrid, Bad Life
Rachel is a prostitute that lives at her work place. She's originally redhead, but can change the color of her hair according to the taste of each client. That's because Rachel it's not an ordinary prostitute. She's an hyperrealistic sex doll. And this, a portrait of Rachel, her coworkers and the only brothel of sex dolls in Spain.