GINA HARA

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GLITCH ‘N SCAPES

MARCH 15-21 2021/15-21 MARZO 2021 (ONLINE)

SIDINGS OF THE AFTERNOON

machinima/digital video, color, sound, 4’ 33”, 2020. Canada.

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS 2021

Cortometraggio sperimentale girato in Minecraft, Sidings of the Afternoon dialoga con l’eredità artistica del Bauhaus e il suo profondo impatto sulla nostra vita e immaginario, prestando particolare attenzione alla pratica fotografica e cinematografica di László Moholy-Nagy. L’arco narrativo riprende Maglie del pomeriggio (1943) di Maya Deren. La voce fuori campo, un vero e proprio soundscape, è stata creata attraverso la tecnica del data-mining e successivo assemblaggio dei termini e delle espressioni più usate dai giocatori che hanno costruito l’edificio mostrato nel machinima.

An experimental short shot entirely in Minecraft, Sidings of the Afternoon is in dialogue with the artistic legacy of the Bauhaus and its profound impact on our everyday lives and imagination, with a special focus on the photography and film making practice of László Moholy-Nagy. The narrative arch was inspired by Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). The voice over, or rather soundscape, was created through data-mining and then assembling the most commonly used words and expressions by the players who constructed the building depicted in the machinima.

L’ARTISTA

THE ARTIST

Regista e artista canadese-ungherese, Gina Hara ha conseguito un Master of Arts in Intermedia e un Master in produzione cinematografica, per poi cimentarsi con il cinema, il video, i new media, i videogiochi e il design. La sua prima opera fiction, Waning (2011) ha ricevuto una candidatura come miglior cortometraggio al Toronto International Film Festival. Il suo successivo progetto, Your Place or Minecraft (2016) è una docu-serie machinima disponibile su YouTube. Il documentario Geek Girls (2017) esplora la cultura geek femminile ed è stato proiettato a festival internazionali e nel 2018 è stato presentato a Gender Play, un evento organizzato dall’Università IULM di Milano. Le opere di Hara sono state esibite al New Museum di New York, alla Kunsthalle di Budapest e presso istituzione artistiche di Montreal. Hara risiede a Montreal, in Canada dove dirige il Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre.

Gina Hara is a Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker and artist. She holds an MA in Intermedia, an MFA in Film Production and worked with film, video, new media, gaming, and design. Waning (2011), her first fiction film, was nominated for a Best Canadian Short award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Your Place or Minecraft (2016), a machinima web series focusing on game studies, is currently available on YouTube. Hara’s full length documentary Geek Girls (2017) explores the notion of subculture from women’s perspective and was screened internationally, including IULM University in 2018 during an event entitled Gender Play. Her artworks have been exhibited by several institutions including the New Museum in New York, the Budapest Kunsthalle and the City of Montreal. Hara lives in Montreal, where she works as Creative Director of the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre.