LAST
JOURNEY IN RAPA NUI (EAF
– El Ángel Blanco, 2001). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Edition:
Jorge Pallares. Language: English. Lenght: 125 min. Starring: Silvestre Byrón
(Our Fellow).
SYNOPSIS. A jornalist in Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Our fellow. Fiftie years
old. Mexico, Brazil, Argentina. No job, no money. No love, no nothing. On the
scent of a man who visited the island fortie years before. The chilean sculptor
Lorenzo Dominguez.
NOTES. Beatiful songs and titanic archeological landscapes. “All here is full
of dead and demons” says Dominguez. Filmed at Rapa Nui, Tahiti Nui and Moorea,
this video presentes the delicade balance of power between the tradicional and
the modern culture.
THE
SALTO LEGEND (EAF
– El Ángel Blanco, 2001). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Edition:
Jorge Pallares. Language: English. Lenght: 97 min. Starring: Carolina Touceda
(Little Lucy), Silvestre Byrón (Uncle Dorr).
SYNOPSIS. Teenager Little Lucy (Carolina Touceda) exposed to the lustful Uncle
Dorr (Silvestre Byrón). In a mysteriously circunstances she dies at the
1939’ St Sylvester feast day. A metafor about the oppressive nazi atmosphere
in South America.
NOTES. Arthur Schnitzler’s classic thema “Fräulein Else” filmed at the
exotic Uruguay River. This melodrama show signs and icons of the golden thirties.
From the oceanliner Cap Arcona to the airship LZ 127 Graff Zeppelin, german
symbols from the decade. Screened by Video 103 (9/20/04).
TELL
YOU CHILDREN. REEFER MADNESS/Paranoid
(EAF – El Ángel Blanco, 2003). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Edition:
Jorge Pallares. Language: English. Length: 125 min. Starring: Silvestre Byrón
(Armed set Paranoid, Ivanna De Cogorno Paranoid, Crystal Paranoid, Panic-stricken
Paranoid).
SYNOPSIS. Large city neurosis. A glance on icons and obsessions. The movie and
the cable alienation. Rudolph Valentino and Victor Mature, Count von Cosel and
Wallenda Family. The Ivanna de Cogorno tale as imagen and fetish in conflict.
Including the first “Bonasera effect”.
NOTES. Filmed in EAF Studios and New York City locations. Its an optional remake
from “Reefer Madness” (1936) by Louis Gasnier, a cult objetct: “Reefer Madness
II: The True Story” (1985) by Kent Skov; “Java Madness” -a. k.a. “Coffe Madness”
(1995) by Bart Everson; “Reefer Madness” (2001) rock-opera by Dan Stud and Kevin
Murphy. Web site: www.reefer-madness-movie.com.
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LOVECRAFTIAN
(EAF – El Ángel Blanco, 2003). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Edition:
Jorge Pallares. Language: English. Lenght: 45 min. Starring: Silvestre Byrón
(A Scientist).
SYNOPSIS: Astronomers report some corpses from another worlds falling in the
South Hemisphere at the Amazon, Brazil. Scientists think about alien between
us?
NOTES: At the «Usher line» of “The War of the Worlds” and “The Color
Out of Space” from the experimental large-video “Scenes of the Rare, Porn-o
and Cruel” (EAF, 2000-01), Lovecraftian are the first Sci-Fi optional medium.
Three scenes about H. P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury literary aestetics. Screened
at the BARS, “Tita Merello” Complex, Buenos Aires (11/3/04).
GARDEL-NEW
YORK NY
(EAF – El Ángel Blanco, 2005). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Edition:
Jorge L. Pallares. Design: eaf_kanal. Language: English. Lenght: 55 min. Starring:
Silvestre Byrón (Himself).
SYNOPSIS: Fiction based on images and poetics relations about argentine tango
singer Carlos Gardel at New York City (1934 – 1935).
NOTES: Designed for Internet the medium “Gardel-New York” show Manhattan and
Queens between reality and fiction, present and past –the mytic and the historic.
With a poetic view the camera describe The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, The Helmsley
Middletowne, The Beaux-Arts, The Paramount Plaza, The NBC Rockefeller Center
Plaza and The Paramount Studios Astoria with cuts from her movie pictures.
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BLUE FIELDS
(Filmoteca 1971 - EAF 2001). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Starring:
Juan José Navarro, Dora Malagrino, Miguel Riglos, Abel Darío, Martha Kott, Alejandro.
English. Lenght: 10
min.
SYNOPSIS. Serge, an confused and bored young boy, is leaving his home.
NOTES.
Based on the Andre Gide’s poetic prose "Les nourritures terrestres"
this pictures became a cult film and a historic issue at the experimental argentine
underground way. Screened by Bravo (1/2-6/98) and CanalCorto.com (5/4/01).
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POINT BLANK
(Filmoteca 1972 - EAF 2002). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Starring:
Gustavo Riha, Mario Barberis, Bettina Abril, Jorge Coscia, Alba Fernández, Beatriz
Mudra, José Mudra. English.
Lenght: 30 min.
SYNOPSIS. Three short stories with lonely and sad people.
NOTES. Produced as an tele-film, "Point Blank" present the anguish of
the urban culture. This project became a cult film like "Blue Fields"
at the experimental argentine underground way. Screened by ATC (8/27/87) and
Canalcorto.com (2002).
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SCENES
OF THE RARE, PORN-O AND CRUEL
(EAF – El Ángel Blanco, 2001). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Editor:
Jorge Pallares Language: English. Lenght: 100 min. Without players.
SYNOPSIS: Ten secuences by underground experimentalisme: “Landing Airplane”,
“Miguel Riglos in «29 Seconds of Absolut Cinema»”, “The Unnocupied
House”, “The Colour Out of Space”, “Cul-de-Sac”, “Dracula”, “The Amazing Triumph
of the Engineer Eiffel”, “Marlene Buenos Aires 1959”, “Last Scenes of Silvestre
Byrón”and “The War of the Worlds”.
NOTES: Relation between Literay text and cinematographyc text: E.T.A. Hoffmann,
H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski.
FUN
(EAF – El Ángel Blanco, 2005). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Editor:
Jorge L. Pallares. Design: eaf_kanal. One channel. Lenght: 30 min. Without players.
SYNOPSIS: Video-installation.
NOTES: New York City and the hells dominium. The Ira Levin’s hipotesis from
“Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), “The Stepford Wives” (1975), “The Boys of Brazil”
(1978) and “Sliver” (1993).
Contents. Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Robert Breer, Sidney Peterson,
Charles Eanes, Stan Vanderbeck, Michael Hirst, Andy Warhol, Paul Morrisey, Ed
Emshwiller, Jonas Mekas; Gustave Doré, José Guadalupe Posada;
Odilon Redon, Aleister Crowley, Austin Spare, Collin De Plancy, Eliphas Lévi,
Félicien Rops, Alexandre Séon; Dolores Zorreguieta (We); Emilio
García Wehbi.
WRITING
NATACHA MONEDA
(EAF – El Ángel Blanco, 2005). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Editor:
Jorge L. Pallares. Design: eaf_kanal. Lenght: 35 min. Two channel. Starring:
Miguel Riglos, Adrena Galú, Miguel Garzón (Pamelo Zubiría)
and Francisco Vocos (Matthew Maule).
SYNOPSIS: Musical video-installation.
NOTES: Icon Natacha Moneda, The Perfum Girl, trouth waltz, fox-trot and barroc:
“Auf Wiederseh’n, leb wohl” by Ricky Ricardo Babalu Boys and Die Cyprys, “Du
bist das süßeste Mädel der Welt” by Paul Godwins Jazz-Symphoniker,
“Komm in mein träumendes Boot” by Barnabas von Géczy, “When Day
Is Done” by Jack Hylton and “At the May Fair Hotel” by Harry Roy, “Adagio” BWV
564 by E. Power Biggs, dedicated to Richard Gatling (1818-1903).
TRISTAN
& ISOLDE (EAF
– El Ángel Blanco, 2005). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Editor:
Jorge L. Pallares. Design: eaf_kanal. Lenght: 28 min. Two Channel. Starring:
Noemí Bonasera, Rodolfo Vocos, Natalia Martinol and Adrena Galú
(Pamelo Zuviría).
SYNOPSIS: Musical video-installation in a televisión real time.
NOTES: No story. Only Natacha Moneda, The Perfum Girl and the André Antoine’s
“natur-realistic” theatre throut the highlights from “Tristan & Isolde”
by soloists, chorus and the Innsbruck Symphonic Orchestra directed by Robert
Wagner; “Hollywood Song”; “Naughty Lola”; “Libiamo”; “Magaldi”.
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LITTLE PUS SAC
(EAF 2001). Direction: Silvestre Byrón. Edition: Jorge Pallares. No players.
English-Spanish. Lenght: 375 min.
SYNOPSIS.
The first informatic project in Argentina: experimental
images for the Web. The recovery from pictures classificated in 1976 by Archivo
Filmoteca. Pure or unknow matters. Mislayed cinema and theater. The experimental
from the Filmoteca studio and the rocker from Natacha Moneda/La Chica Perfume
(The Perfume-girl); the 1970’s Buenos Aires underground remastered. This codification
included the “EAF original production” with unknow Carolina Touceda performances.
No bloopers. Images relating to the pure theory of the representation mode.
Scientists cultur, philosophical subjects.
NOTES. The project are divided in three splits: "Perdido" (125
min), the unpublished; "Telecine" (130 min), the tele-films;
and "Soporte electrónico" (120 min), the electronic support -including the last EAF
video production.
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CONTENTS: Maya Deren, Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Stanislavski and Meyerhold, Oscar Wilde, Rudolph Valentino, Graham Greene, Duke Ellington, Edward D. Wood Jr., Vampirella, Vincent Price (with Peter Lorre), Zarah Leander, John Cage, Jorge Negrete and Igor Stravinski.
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