AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN
Manuela De Laborde
24:38 min, 2016
16mm & 35mm, color, sound
Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program
Conceptually informed by the artist’s active filmgoing, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN takes as its point of departure prop sculptures which are transformed both through hybrid techniques of framing, lighting, and superimposition and by being projected in an enclosed, silent architectural space. AS WITHOUT explores the possibility that the surfaces of things are entities worthy of their own depth for and in themselves, demanding to be seen and confronted as they exist.
Manuela de Laborde is from Mexico City and studied Film & Video (MFA) at the California Institute of the Arts and received an Art BA at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2012 she exhibited her solo show, Maquettes, in Generator Projects, Dundee; in 2013 screened, Sun, at London MexFest with the live score of Camila Fuchs; her short films Viveros, The exponential Nature of Images and Le Visible et L’Invisible where shown at Antimatter FF, Jihlava IDFF and Milwaukee UFF; and this year her thesis film, As Without So Within, is showing at Toronto International Film Festival, Winnipeg WNDX (Best International Short), and 25fps Festival in Zagreb (Grand Prix), FICM in Morelia, and LightField in San Francisco.