Pablo Marín
MATERIA VIBRANTE
Argentina, Spagna 2024, 7’
“It is not enough to collect the remains of the shipwreck. We must install, in the midst of the ruins, the marks of obsession" (Maria Negroni, El corazón del daño). In search of traces and imprints of an absence, this film examines the coexistence between nature and man-made structures or artifacts, to deliver a formal object of commemoration. An obscure celebration of the surface of a fractured and exhausted world, what could have been a city symphony evokes instead the feeling of a mausoleum for our present existence. “Vibrant Matter”, a title based on a possible definition of cinema, is the portrait of a world that just is, between dream and desolation.
Pablo Marín (Buenos Aires, 1982) is a filmmaker, film critic, and professor. As an independent researcher and curator, he is active in the United States, Canada, Spain, Austria, Finland, and Switzerland. He participated in the project ‘ISM ISM ISM: Latin American Experimental Cinema.’ He translated writings of Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, John Waters, and J. Hoberman. His films are shown in international museums and film festivals. He tutored the Super8 Workshop of the 59th Pesaro Film Festival.
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