Shot in the United States, the 35mm-film features images from the largest media archive worldwide, the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation of the Library of Congress, located in Culpeper, Virginia. It is an invitation to think about the spaces in which history and cultural production are preserved in order to be passed on to future generations by juxtaposing images from the media archive in Culpeper with a study of rhythm, and images of cultural production with those of industrial production. The audio-visual narration of space is used to uproot places from their pragmatic circumstance in order to suspend them in an undetermined temporality.
From Source to Poem, 2016
35mm film, color, optical sound, 12 min.
Images 1 - 4: Film still © Rosa Barba
Image 5: Installation view at CAPC Bordeaux, 2016. Photo: Arthur Pequin © Rosa Barba
From Source to Poem, 2016 has been on display at the following locations:
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2024
Cukrarna, 2021
Luhring Augustine, 2021
Neue Nationalgalerie, 2021
CAPC Bordeaux, 2016
Malmö Konsthall, 2017
Pirelli HangarBicocca, 2017
Tabakalera, 2018
Kunsthalle Bremen, 2018
gfzk - Galerie für zeitgenösssiche Kunst, Leipzig, 2019
Wäinö Altnonen Museum of Art, 2020/2021
From Source to Poem, 2016 has been screened at the following locations:
Video Ex, Zürich, 2022
IFFR Rotterdam 2017
CPH:DOX Copenhagen 2017
Vila do Conde, Portugal, 2017
TIFF Toronto, 2017
Curtocircuito, Santiago de Compostela, 2017
Valdivia, Chile, 2017
ICDOCS Iowa City, 2018
awards: Experimental Film Award, 25th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal, 2017, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Tiger Short Award nominee, 2017