ENG -Caterina Erica Shanta

Full PORTFOLIO 2018

CATERINA ERICA SHANTA Nata a Landstuhl (GERMANIA - EE) il 23/04/1986 web. http://www.caterinaericashanta.it/

Short Bio

Caterina Erica Shanta (b. 1986 in Germania) is a visual artist based in Pordenone, Italy. She holds an MFA from IUAV Uni-versity in Venice and is working primarily in the field of moving images. Caterina investigate images produced by others, to explore how these are connected to a particular contexts. Using video, footage and archival pictures as main medium, her research is focussed on the redefinition of images proper of documentary films’ languages. She has taken part in residency program as Atelier Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice - IT), Careof Artists Residency (Milan - IT), as well as taken part in artists programs such as VISIO - European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images at Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival (IT).

/Filmography

Il cielo Stellato, upcoming 2019, directed by Caterina Erica Shanta, produced by Invisibile Film and CAREOF, 50:00 min, Full HD A History About Silence, 2018, directed by Caterina Erica Shanta, produced by Dolomiti Contemporanee, 21:51 min. Full HD Palmyra, 2015, directed by Caterina Erica Shanta, produced by IUAV university Venice and Engramma Magazine, 46:00 min, Full HD Sogni, 2014, directed by Caterina Erica Shanta, produced by Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, 24:00 min, Full HD È troppo vicino per mettere a fuoco, 2012, directed by Caterina Erica Shanta, 13:00, Full HD

/CVEDUCATION

2014 Master Degree in Visual Arts, IUAV University, Venice (VE) with honor2013 XI MAGIS Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School, Gorizia (GO), 2013 2010 Bachelor degree in Visual Arts, IUAV university, Venice (VE)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS and TALKS

2018 founder of the artist collective MAGMATICA - Artist Run Project, based in Pordenone (PN)2018 At Intervals, screening program in PLUFF - Pepe Litoral Universal Film Fest, curated by Caterina Erica Shanta and Selini Halvadaki, Venice (IT)2017 Il Cielo Stellato, talk holded by Caterina Erica Shanta, Marta Bianchi - Careof (MI), Gabriella Manfrè - Invisibile Film (MI), Paolo Verri - Matera-Basilicata2019 Foundation (MT), Vito Domenico Andrisani - Maria SS. della Bruna Association (MT), Association’s offices, Vittorio Veneto square, Matera (MT)2017 Corpo sensibile. Barlumi del documentario, talk holded by Marco Bertozzi and Caterina Erica Shanta, MAMbo, Artefiera Vernissage, Bologna (BO)2016 L’occhio tagliato, course holded by Caterina Erica Shanta and Valerio Veneruso, curated by Martina Melilli and Valerio Veneruso, in collaboration with Excinema, The last tycoon, Padova (PD)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

UPCOMING: 2018 A History About Silence in “Prosopettive” section, Filmmaker FIlm Festival, Milano (MI)

PAST:2018 A History About Silence, projection curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Dolomiti Contemporanee, CO-SMO, Museo dell’Occhiale, Pieve di Cadore (BL)2018 Marathon - Online screening program curated by Alberto Ceresoli, supported by Bergamo smart Citi & Communi-ty, online platform www.maratonadivisione.it2018 Chi Utopia mangia le mele. Dal sogni al progetto in quattro tempi, curated by Adriana Polveroni and Gabriele Tosi, Verona (VR)2018 Cantieri Aperti, Certo che questo mondo è tutto da rifare, comincia ad urlare, curated by Carolina Gestri and Gabri-ele Tosi, Borgo del Ponte, Massa (MS)2018 Brain Tooling, curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Riccardo Caldura, Petra Cason, Pieve di Cadore (BL)2018 Aquerò, Lo spirito del cinema, fragments from Il Cielo Stellato, Cesano Boscone, Milano (MI)2017 Studio Visit, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, San Giovanni Valdarno, Florence (FI)2017 Anonima Kunsthalle, ANY KIND OF VISION IN THE AIR curated by Gabriele Tosi, Varese, (VA)

2017 Corpo sensibile. Barlumi del documentario, curated by Marco Bertozzi, MAMbo, Bologna (BO) 2016 Outside the black Box, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Cinema la Compagnia, Firenze (FI), 2016 Working Papers, curated by Sara Cosulich, Viola Invernizzi, Heritage agency Promemoria and Fondazione 1563 La compagnia di San Paolo, in Intesa San Paolo Skyscraper, Torino (TO)2016 Artes, Xmq of pit, ready for the mosh! curated by Valentina Lacinio Andrea Bruciati, ARTVERONA (VR)2016 Helicotrema in World Breakers 2016, curated by Blauer Hase collective, Centrali Fies, Dro, Trento (TN)2016 Invisible Walls curated by Carlo Sala, Fondazione Franscesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (TV)2016 Artevisione Lab, Miart Openweek, curated by Chiara Agnello, Careof, Milan (MI)2015 Palmyra, an image chant, video projection and theatre performance, curated by Monica Centanni and Marco Ber-tozzi, Daniela Sacco, image research and editing Caterina Erica Shanta, Venice (VE)2015 Visioni Alternative, Teatro Palladium, Roma (RM)2015 Francesco Fabbri Prize, collective exhibition curated by Carlo Sala, Pieve di Soligo (TV)2015 Another Second Skin, solo show for “Walking with art” Stonefly Award, curated by Stefano Coletto and Marco Tag-liafierro, Viafarini, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (MI)2015 Atelier 2014. Final residency collective exhibition curated by Rachele D’Osualdo, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Piazza San Marco Gallery, Venice (VE)2015 FLUXBOOKS. From the Sixties to the Future, collective exhibition curated by Stefano Coletto and Angela Vettese, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Palazzetto Tito, Venice (VE)2014 Euganea film festival, Villa vescovi, Torreglia (PD)2014 Parma video film festival, Parma (PR)2013 Academy Awards Visual Arts at IUAV Univesity, final course exhibition, curated by Antoni Muntadas and Alessandra Messali, Viafarini, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (MI)2013 École des medias, Qué bec university in Montréal (UQAM)2012 Cafoscari international Short film festival, Venezia (VE)2012 The Responsive Act, final course exhibition, collective exhibition curated by Rene Gabri and Filipa Ramos, Metrcubi Gallery, Venice (VE), 2012

GRANTS, PRIZES AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATIONS

2018 Progetto Borca, curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Borca di Cadore (BL)2018 Brain-tooling Residency, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Pieve di Cadore (BL)2017 Public School for Social Engagement in Artistic Research, curated by Simone Francgi, Viafarini in collaboration with Sunugal (MI)2017 Production residency supported by Careof, Invisibile Film, Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 for Il cielo stellato film project, Matera (MT)2016 VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 5a edition, promoted by Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Firenze (FI)2016 Careof Residency, development prize Artevisione 2016 supported by Careof e Sky Arte HD, Milan (MI)2016 Artevisione workshop, promoted by Sky Arte HD e Careof in Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (MI)2015 Parola Seme, workshop on contemporary storytelling, Bianco e Valente, Scompiglio estate, Vorno (LU)2014/2015 One year residency in Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Palazzo Carminati, Venice (VE)2014 Another Second Skin, collective exhibition “Walking with art” Stonefly Award, curated by Stefano Coletto and Marco Tagliafierro, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Piazza San Marco Gallery, Venice (VE). Winner of the prize.2012 First Jury Prize, Documentamy festival “Un posto nel mondo”, Varese (VA)2012 Video Editing Workshop with Paolo Cottignola, Venice (VE)2012 Maybe the Sky is Really green, and we’re just coloblind, workshop hold by Johan Grimonprez, Palazzo Grassi (VE)2012 RAVE residency, workshop hold by Ivan Moudov, Trivignano Udinese (UD)2012 Visual knowledge, workshop hold by Maria Morganti, IUAV, Venice (VE)

ENG -SELECTED PORTFOLIOCaterina Erica Shanta

An autobiographical documentary film on Caterina Erica Shanta’s life as seen through her father’s and stepfather’s photographic lenses, both sharing the passion for the picture camera and the military life who has taken them around the world. This is a micro-story (according to Carlo Ginzburg) on Caterina’s family, but connected to History, from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the second Gulf War.

All pictures in the film comes from Caterina Erica Shanta’s private family archive.

title: È TROPPO VICINO PER METTERE A FUOCOVideo duration: 14’ / color / sound / year: 2012 / Full HD 1920x1080web link to full length film: HTTPS://VIMEO.COM/85524953 Self-produced in collaboration with: Valeria Marchesini

GRANTS & PRIZESÈ troppo vicino per mettere a fuoco, 2012

First jury prize, Documentamy Film festival “Un posto nel mondo”, Varese (VA), 2012

PROJECTIONSRoma Teatro Palladium, 2015

Euganea Film Festival, 2014École des medias, Qué bec university in Montréal (UQAM), 2013

Ca’ foscari short film festival, 2012

1943-45 Venice. The Second World War in Venice. This is a documentary film about the institutional cinematographic industry in the Salò’s Republic which was transferred from Cinecittà in Rome to the Biennale Pavillions in Venice for two years. Venice was declared a “safe city” as it was studded with antiaircra shelter and isolated from the mainland.Improductive institutional cinematographic industry, reinforced concrete ruins in Venice and old pictures, shows the fall of the fascist regime through the imag- es that we can see today. A story about a city which becomes cause of refleection on beauty and its manipulation.

title: SOGNI / DreamsVideo duration: 24’ / color / BW / sound / year: 2015 Produced by: Fondazione Bevilaqua la Masa, Venezia (VE)web link to full length film: HTTPS://VIMEO.COM/132817229

SOGNI, 2012

EXHIBITIONFrancesco Fabbri Prize, collective exhibition curated by Carlo Sala, Pieve di Soligo (TV), 2015

Collective end residency exhibition curated by Rachele D’Osualdo, Fondazione BLM, Venezia (VE)ArteVisione during MIART, CAREOF, curated by Chiara Agnello, 2016

Quoted in Venezia Vive: dal presente al futuro e viceversa, by Angela Vettese, Il Mulino, 2017

This film is composed by “stolen images” found on the internet and selected according to Georges Didi-Hubermann’s thesis on Images malgré tout. The necessity to show what happened during war became a physical demonstration of an original precarious condition. This process is visible on images surface, most in low quality, destabilized, full of errors as a symptomatic condition of their local cause.Palmyra’s story, the Syrian city definitely blown down from war, is visible through the dissolution of its images which progressively had lost their quality standard as a symptomatic demonstration of power subversion.

title: PALMYRA Video duration: 45’ color / BW / sound 2CH / year: 2015 Produced by: IUAV University - Venice; Archivio Progetti, IUAV; ENGRAMMA Magazine Link: https://vimeo.com/159795588

EXHIBITIONSPALMYRA, 2015

Omaggio di Venezia a Palmyra, theatre performance, 15.12.2015 / 4.7.2017Curated by Moncia Centanni, Marco Bertozzi, Daniela Sacco,

IUAV UNIVERSITY (VE)

Visio: Outside the Black Box curato da Leonardo Bigazzi Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Firenze, 2016 Testi critici: Leonardo Bigazzi, Carolina Gestri

Visio Catalogue: 2016

title: A HISTORY ABOUT SILENCE Video duration: 21’ / color / sound 2CH / 16:9 FullHD 1920x1080, year: 2018 Testo stampato 1 foglio A4, sempre disponibile in mostra per lo spettatore,Produced by: Dolomiti Contemporanee Link to full lenght film: https://vimeo.com/287063157 / pw: A_HISTORY_ABOUT_SILENCE_2018

A short story about silence and the challenges of storytelling.It’s an incomplete ad uncertain travel.The complexity of the story catches us unprepared on human feelings, with an impossibility to speak about them without suspending our judgment.The film starts from an interview done to two last former “IMI - Italian soldier prisoners” of the Germans concentration camps, who still live in Cadore (a region on the Dolomites Mountains in North Italy).Their story starts at the beginning of the Second World War, when they were enlisted in the Italian Fascist Army and sent to the colonies and to the military front in Europe - Greece and Russia.But, as Italian soldiers, they were loyal to the king Vittorio Emanuele and not to Mussolini, who was only a minister. After the Armistice with the allies called by General Badoglio and the fall of the fascist regime, Mussolini escaped in the North of Italy and founded the “Italian Social Republic of Salò”.  In this moment all the Italian soldiers, who didn’t accept to not swear to Mussolini or the Nazis, were captured and sent to the Lagers: there are more about 650.000 people counted, but numbers are still uncertain.

This film was inspired by the reading of “We, Sons of Eichmann: An Open Letter to Klaus Eichmann” by Gunther An-ders, written in 1964All film’s shootings were made in Pieve di Cadore, at Montericco Fort (Belluno, Italy). Black and White photos are from Guido Coletti’s personal archive.

EXHIBITIONS

Brain Tooling, collective exhibition curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Riccardo Caldura, Petra Cason Olivares, Forte di Montericco, Pieve di Cadore (BL), 2018

Exhibition text curated by: Caterina Erica Shanta, Gianluca D’Incà Levis

Upcoming:Prospettive, Filmmaker Film Festival, Milano (MI), 2018

ENG -OTHER WORKSCaterina Erica Shanta

title: BIRD VIEW Trilogy (a gaming landscape) duration: 30’ - video loop; color / sound, Full HD 1920x1080, year: 2018; Web link full lenght film: https://vimeo.com/253290766 / PW: Bird_view_trilogy_2018

Bird View is part of an installation triptyque, entitled “everyday matters, construction notes on contemporary images”. Bird view (a gaming landscape) is the first of three video about digital panoramas and virtual 3D spaces which char-acterize the human behavior in the material world. This work will explore contemporary image’s transmissions forms inside our daily routine which is completely mediated by digital devices.

Bird View (a gaming landscape) is a visual research trough bird’s point of view, using domestic toy-drones and video games which forms a different conception of three-dimensional digital and physical space. These kind of low-cost and remote-controlled devices are generators of galaxies of images uploaded by the users on internet and other platforms. This process transform the machine - or the “low cost user friendly device” - in a perfect trained and domes-ticated animal.

BIRDIVIEW (A Gaming Landscape), 2018PARTIALLY UN-EDITED

PROJECTION/EXHIBITION Marathon - Rassegna online di videoarte, curato da Alberto Ceresoli, supportato da Bergamo smart Citi & Community, 2018

online platform www.maratonadivisione.it

title: POLVERE duration: 16’ - video loop; color / sound, Full HD 1920x1080, year: 2016; Produced by: Fondazione 1563, Torino Compagnia di San Paolo, Banca San Paolo (TO)Web link to excerpt: https://vimeo.com/181760816

A man’s film portrait made through the personal objects that he left us and now completely silent. These objects are documents of his life and of a specific Italian period. I’ve started to reconstruct his taste, by analizing objects and ad-vertisement from a book founded in his home, composed by tv magazines published between 1961 and 1962.His life’s formative period occourred during the economical boom in Italy, when the family roles were redifined in new life standard: the perfect housewife and the man at work as a technological master. The 70’s femminist movement desmantled in part this social order.In this video I fillmed myself cleaning these objects, listening to old music and looking at old pictures and magazines.

GRANTS and EXHIBITIONPOLVERE, 2016

At the FONDAZIONE COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO 1563, Banca San Paolo, Torino /TO) private collection

Working Papers, collective exhibition curated by Sara Cosulich, Viola Invernizzi, Heritage agency Promemoria and Fondazione 1563 La compagnia di San Paolo, grattacielo Intesa San Paolo, Torino (TO), 2016

ENG -UPCOMINGFUTURE FILMCaterina Erica Shanta

title: IL CIELO STELLATO INEDITO in fase di finalizzazioneApprox video duration: 60’ / color / BW / sound 2CH / year: 2015-2019 Produced by: CAREOF, Milano / Invisibile Film, Milano Supported by: Lucana Film Commission, Sky Arte HD, Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 Link to trailer: https://vimeo.com/232985587 / pw: IL_CIELO_STELLATO_2017

“Il cielo stellato” is a documentary film project born in 2015 about the mediatic digitization of the secular rite of Ma-donna della Bruna in Matera, Basilicata. Matera’s “Sassi” was described by the ancient travellers as a starry sky because it was full of candles during the night.The rite consists in a long procession with a giant triumphal papier-maché chariot around the city and it is destroyed by all population in the middle of the main square at the end of the day.The film’s aim is to investigate how an oral culture change itself through a digital dubbing. I observed a proliferation of photocameras and smartphones over the people’s head: a second starry sky that records all the destruction phase of the rite.So I’ve decided to collect all these digital material and upload them into a software to develop a 3D point cloud photogrammetry of the chariot as a third starry sky. Originally, these kind of softwares were developped for digital archeological preservation purposes.