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Max Cooper: Cardano Circles

Mario Carrillo
Stunningly beautiful – and science-based, too: Cooper’s euphoric electronica track and its visualisation in the exhilaration of a geometrical principle that originated in 1570.
Filmstill Max Cooper: Cardano Circles
Filmstill Max Cooper: Cardano Circles

Max Cooper: Cardano Circles

Max Cooper: Cardano Circles
Mario Carrillo
Animation Night 2024
Animated Film
Mexico
2024
4 minutes
without dialogue
Breathtakingly beautiful and precisely synchronised circles perform linear movements – sensual highs, but based on science. Electronica producer and science PhD Max Cooper has found the perfect visual fit for his euphoric and driving track in a geometrical principle described by Gerolamo Cardano in 1570 and in Mario Carrillo’s animation.
André Eckardt

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Director
Mario Carrillo
Filmstill Miralles

Miralles

Miralles
Maria Mauti
International Competition Documentary Film 2024
Documentary Film
Spain,
Mexico
2024
90 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English
More than twenty years have passed since the death of Catalan architect Enric Miralles. He left iconic traces with his buildings, not just in and around Barcelona – the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh is also based on his designs. Maria Mauti chooses a poetic approach to her impressive protagonist, in eleven variations. They take us from the Igualada cemetery to a community centre in Hostalets de Balenyà, a gym in Huesca or the Torre Marenostrum office skyscraper in Barcelona. The architect’s home with its open and at the same time labyrinthine character is given a major role, becoming the starting point and epicentre of a unique mind.
Maria Mauti carefully scans the still lively architectures, stages them. In Huesca, the smell of a sweating soccer team seems to mingle with the omnipresent cool raw concrete, while a group of Spanish cowboys and cowgirls shake their leather boots in the futuristic community centre. Despite the tragic note that comes from the work of the prematurely deceased, “Miralles” is not without a certain wit. This poised essay which combines personal and theoretical statements achieves a multi-layered quality that is in itself evocative of a Miralles design: airy and dense, abrupt and fluid, always idiosyncratic.
Carolin Weidner

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Director
Maria Mauti
Cinematographer
Ciro Frank Schiappa
Editor
Núria Esquerra
Producer
Antonio Chavarrías, Alba Bosch
Sound
Eva Valiño, Bernat Fortiana, Leo Dogan, Lucía Herrera
World Sales
Yvette De los Santos
Nominated for: Silver Dove, Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize
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