5 minutes' showreel 2024-2025 (Animation/Projection Mapping/ Immersive Space)
El Callao: Wounds and Repair (2024)
Animation installation
El Callao: Wounds and Repair are multi-screen animations/ immersive installation informed by Venezuelan cultural heritage, and ancestral beliefs from diverse communities, which uncover the postcolonial past of El Callao. Calypso of El Callao is a music genre associated with emancipation celebrations in the Caribbean, with which Venezuelans minorities maintain their cultural identity.
Dimensions:
Six individual LED-driven spaces within the atrium contribute to the 16K resolution, with individual displays on the East, South, West, and North walls, and the ceiling having specific resolutions like 8480 x 4800 for the South wall.
Resolution (Screens)
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East Wall: 3680 x 3280
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South Wall: 8480 x 4800
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West Wall: 6476 x 3280
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North Wall: 6586 x 3280
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Ceiling: 8494 x 6094
Outernet London, July 2024 – October 2024
Outernet London, July 2024 – October 2024
Details
El Callao: Wounds and Repair (2024)
Animation installation with live performance
The Venezuelan artists dived into the rarely-known history to interpret the origin of Calypso de El Callao with immersive animation and rhythms performed by traditional instruments, following the colonial wounds and cultural symbolism in the folklore narrative. Informed by the conversation of our pioneer Francisco de Miranda with Goethe, ‘A country starts out from a name and a flag, and it then becomes them, just as a man fulfills his destiny’, Patricia Wanying Lolu weaves a web of echoes with hand-crafted animation that links the distorted past to this significant moment. With the unwavering faith, Baldo Verdú leads us into a sensory journey with his powerful Afro-Venezuelan Bumbac
Outernet London, 28 July 2024
El Callao: Wounds and Repair (2025)
Projection Mapping on Architecture, Animation installation
The projection-mapped animation features Cantonese Opera and the Madama from El Callao, representing the cultural identity of Venezuelan minorities and attesting to its postcolonial significance.
the Disseny Hub Barcelona, Spain, 10 May 2025
The Dancing Devils of Chuao (The Mijares) (2024)
Projected Animation, Craft Making
The Dancing Devils of Chuao is an immersive animation projection installation from a religious tradition in Venezuela. The narrative focuses on the peasant cosmology and postcolonial cultural legacy inscribed in the rituals of Chuao, with popular religiosity, devotion and detached faith.
The Ugly Duck, London, 31 May 2024 – 02 June 2024
Details
The Ugly Duck, London, 31 May 2024 – 02 June 2024
The Mijares (2023)
Animated Documentary
The animated short “The Mijares” originated from the intangible cultural heritage of Venezuela “The Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi”, telling the ups and downs of the inheritors of the intangible heritage. The Mijares family is one of the inheritors. They experienced poverty and displacement in the swaying era, and insisted on dancing to repay the gods year after year. Music and dance are gradually lost, the family declines, and the last generation of inheritors moves away from their homes, dancing alone to the wilderness, reuniting with the souls of their ancestors, as if returning to the summer night when they first prayed to the gods.
Youth Art 100 Invitational, Sichuan China, Oct 2023
International Screening
Bucheon International Animation Festival 2023 - Korea
Encuentro Para Cinéfagos 2023 - Venezuela
Rome Prisma Awards 2023 - Rome, Italy
Barcelona Indie Art Festival BARCIFF 2023 - Spain
International Animation Festival AJAYU 2023 - Peru
Anim! Arte 2023 - Brazil
Latino & Native American Festival 2023 - US
Festival de Cine Colectivo 2023 - Mexico