Dear Eugeni, Thank you for alerting us of Rossell's passing. I profoundly enjoyed reading your conversation with him and his ruminations about growing up in Àger, the thematic attributes he explored in his artistic practice and his description of his delightful video prints. He will be missed.
Que descanse en paz, On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Eugeni Bonet <[email protected]> wrote: > Benet Rossell, also known as Beni, and once signing one of his films as > Beni Rusell, has left us and just a few on this list will know about. > > Aside from being a key reference in the milieu of > alternative/independent/avantgarde > film practices in/off Spain in the 60s-70s, when he was living in Paris, > his work was later discovered and appreciated by Dominique Noguez and then > included in the main anthologies about "cinéma différent" in France. > > In 1990 he also had an exhibition at Anthology Film Archives, including > the screening of his major (but always short) films and a show of his > "micrographies" or drawings, objects, paintings, etc. peopled by miniature > calligraphic signs. > > Then he went back to his native Caralonia and began to work increasingly > on video, even to produce, I guess, one piece per month. > > Aside from the films properly said, he did as well several film-objects > and vision-machines. > > You can see some of his pieces just by doing a search on the net. > > But here are a couple of links that reflect my friendship with him. One as > a "mute conversation", the other as the words lacking in there: > > https://vimeo.com/130887439 > > http://www.macba.cat/PDFs/bonet_eng.pdf > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- Caroline Gil 787.530.5823 www.caroline-gil.com
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