Sebastián Díaz Morales: Ficcionario (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3864420938 ISBN 13: 9783864420931

Publisher: SNOECK, 2014

Synopsis

Diccionario & Ficción = Ficcionario. Sebastián Díaz Morales was born in 1975 in the Patagonian petroleum city of Comodoro Rivadavia. With his book »Ficcionario« - the title is a portmanteau of the words diccionario and ficción - he presents a kind of autopoietic sum of his work in images, texts and reports by participants. Since completing his studies at Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2001, the Argentinian film artist has been invited to exhibit at many eminent European and US institutions, and he has participated worldwide in major film and video festivals, as well as numerous biennials. He deliberately recalls - as the motto of one of the chapters of his book - a quote of the great Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges: »The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.« This particular view of reality, a fusion of poetic and realistic narrative style, represents the Latin American literature of magical realism as well as the docu-fictional style of South American cinema. In Sebastián Díaz Morales, these influences come to bear when, in his film »Pasajes«, he has a man rush from room to room and, in doing so, join the most diverse worlds. His installation »Insight« takes a further decisive step and raises the question: In front or behind the camera, is all this actually just an illusion? This also applies to this book, which can be understood as an intelligent and entertaining journey by anyone picking it up!

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From the Author:

Sebastian Diaz Morales is a character from fiction. Nobody is absolutely homogenous at every hour of the day and night. We are constantly presenting a multitude of facets of our ourselves, we are transformed by the moon's rays and other people's gazes, we metamorphose in keeping with the person observing us. (...) I had an appointment with Sebastian Diaz Morales in Amsterdam on Friday 27 December. (...) I heard him talk about his childhood in Patagonia and his cinema studies in Buenos Aires, his scholarship at the Rijksakademie at the turn of the 2000s, his time at Le Fresnoy, and, as we approached his studio, reality gradually seemed to take over again, as if the fictional part that I had discerned in him was in the process of slowly melting and dissolving in the rain that continued to fall.(...)
Jean-Philippe Toussaint

About this edition

• Publisher: SNOECK
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3864420938
• ISBN 13: 9783864420931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260