Valentina Ferrandes (Italy)
Filmmaker and Visual Artist
Valentina Ferrandes is an experimental filmmaker and media artist from southern Italy, living in London and Berlin.
She holds a degree in Humanities from Bologna University and a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Interweaving text, sound and archive footage, with a documentary approach to image making, her films and immersive sound works explore issues of displacement as related to geography, landscape and architecture.
Her works are screened internationally in festivals such as Visions du Reel, European Media Art Festival Osnabruck, DokuFest Kosovo, Cairo Video Festival, Rencontres Internationales, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, MACRO Rome, 5th Moskow Biennale, Bardo National Museum.
Artworks
the oyster effect
The Oyster Effect - Video Art
Starting from excerpts of archive footage shot by the anthropologist De Martino during his first research on the dancing rituals of Tarantism in Southern Italy, “The Oyster Effect” develops into a collage of historical references as fragmented narratives over a visual journey. In the film, the portrayal of women and hysteria is shown as a series of parallels between built environments, architectural spaces, landscapes and their narration. The viewer travels through foreign languages and non-descriptive locations, in a journey that challenges linearity and historicism. The attempt to bridge the specific representations of women’s subjectivity as products of their cultural environments, in the north and southern Europe, is persistently negated by the conflicting relation between image and voiceover.
SEE HERE A PART OF : The Oyster Effect
EXCERPT Ref 11_2053 Online excerpt for the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2011-2012. http://art-action.org Valentina FERRANDES : The Oyster Effect | Exp. documentary | hdcam | color and b&w | 00:12:51 | Italy | 2010 Synopsis Using as a starting point parts of archive footage shot by the anthropologist De Martino’s whilst researching the phenomenon of Tarantism, “The Oyster Effect” develops into a collage of historical references as narrating voices over a visual journey. In the film, the portrayal of women and hysteria is shown as a series of parallels between built environments, architectural spaces, landscape and their narration. The viewer travels through foreign languages and non-descriptive locations, in a journey that challenges linearity and historicity. The attempt to bridge the specific representations of women’s subjectivity as products of their cultural environments, in the north and southern Europe, is persistently negated by the conflicting relation between image and narrating voice. Biographic notes Valentina Ferrandes is a London based, Italian artist. She studied Disciplines of Art, Music and Drama at Bologna University. She gained a BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, where she graduated in 2009. In 2008 she was selected to take part in a residency programme at China Academy of Art. Since 2008 her work has been shown internationally in galleries and film festivals, including the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Director`s Lounge, Berlin, the Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media & Interdisciplinary Art, Montreal and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, as part of the Biennale du Mediterranee.
