28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE - PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE
AVALANCHE
by Carlos Casas, Phill Niblock
Country: Spain, USA
Year: 2010
Duration: 97'
avalanche “In 2009, before I was traveling to Pamir mountains to start my research for a future film, I visited Phill Niblock in New York: I wanted to ask him to work together in the film I was to embark, I wanted him to be the guiding music for my film. That day Phill Niblock gave me some music and suggested that I listen to Stosspeng. During my first shooting in the Pamir mountains Stosspeng became the soundtrack for my visual explorations, driving my mood and feelings towards the landscape, Stosspeng will become one with the landscape I was portraying. The first time music was defining the way I was shooting images and the first time I was working with Phill Niblock’s incommensurable music, music that drives you to further understanding of your own interpretation of things, that levitates you in order to sedate your senses for an enhanced comprehension of yourself and where you are standing. Phill Niblock’s music is so rooted in these images that it has become it’s own soundtrack.”
Biography
film director
Carlos Casas
Carlos Casas (Barcelona, Spain, 1974) debuted in 2000 with the short Afterwords, which was selected for Venice and Rotterdam. The next year he began his voyages, which became the basis for the documentaries Patagonia, Rocinha - Daylight of a Favela and Aral - Fishing in an Invisible Sea, which received a prize at the Torino Film Festival in 2004. Hunters Since the Beginning of Time is the final chapter of his trilogy of films dedicated to the world’s most extreme environmental conditions. In 2009 he developed a project in collaboration with Arto Lindsay for the 53rd Venice Biennale.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Carlos Casas:
Afterwords (cm, 2000), Patagonia (cm, doc., tv, 2002), Rocinha - Daylight of a Favela (mm, doc., 2003), Aral - Fishing in an Invisible Sea (mm, doc., 2004), Solitude at the End of the World (mm, doc., 2005), Hunters Since the Beginning of Time (doc., 2008).
Carlos Casas, Phill Niblock:
Avalanche (doc., 2010).
Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock (Anderson, IN, USA, 1933) moved to New York in 1958 and began working as a photographer and director before dedicating himself to music starting in 1968. An exponent of minimalism in music, he soon became a reference point for many composers. He is the director of Experimental Intermedia.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Carlos Casas, Phill Niblock:
Avalanche (doc., 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Carlos Casas
musica/music
Phill Niblock
