UTOPÍA 360
Experimental Documentary, 2020
Analog 16mm | Color | Spanish |6’52 | San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba
Points of light, volatile images of a computer screen and motherboard, faces hidden behind virtual reality goggles, voices chopped into fragments that bring Cuba's past, colonization, and revolution to the fore… all these elements help paint a picture of the virtual reality game, Utopia 360. Two young Cuban gamers test out this VR experience where, through a series of flashes and snippets, the spectator becomes the architect who controls the overall course of the game.
Production: Mar Quio y Violena Ampudia
Analog process: Violena Ampudia & Reggis Guedes.
Editing: Emilia Vergara & Violena Ampudia
Sound Design: Violena Ampudia
Sound Mixing: Marisol Cao Milán / Estudio Amarras
Transfer & Color Correction: Otávio Almeida
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
2023
/ 16mm negative screening at the LABORATORIO DA CAVE collective exhibition, Galeria Nowhere, Lisbon, Portugal.
2021
/ CURTA KINOFORUM International Short Film Festival of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
/ Official Selection EQUINOXIO FILM FESTIVAL. Colombia.
/ Best Film Award at ATEMPORAL FILC | Section ¨Revoluciones Fílmicas¨, Peru.
/ Muestra de Cine Joven Cubano en el Sur, Montevideo, Uruguay.
/ RENDER University Film Festival. Peru.
/ EXTRAMUROS INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, Spain.
2020
/ World Premiere at Ji.lhava IDFF | Section ¨Fazcinations¨ Czech Republic.