Daniela Delgado Viteri
L’effet cocktail party - Film - 18min - 2015
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 17
“In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we’d all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced by a supersecond of superlucidity (if I can put it that way), in which I realized that this scene was the logical outcome of our ridiculous lives.
It wasn’t a punishment but a new wrinkle. It gave us a glimpse of ourselves in our common humanity. It wasn’t proof of our idle guilt but a sign of our miraculous and pointless innocence.
But that’s not it. That’s not it. We were still and they were in motion and the sand on the beach was moving, not because of the wind but because of what they were doing and what we were doing, which was nothing, which was watching, and all of that together was the wrinkle, the moment of superlucidity. Then, nothing.”
Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives This is a short film about a group of people that can hear everything but don’t understand anything. They seem to speak an unknown language. They never get tired or scared. They seem happy and confused. Everything looks fine.
Daniela Delgado Viteri
Daniela Delgado was born in Ecuador in 1987. She studied film at the Buenos Aires Film School (Universidad del Cine, Argentina). She wrote and directed shorts that were screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival (Netherlands), the Split Film Festival (Croatia), the Buenos Aires Biennale of Moving Image (Argentina), the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, and the Festival of Experimental Cinema of Madrid (Spain). She was a resident at the Buenos Aires Center of Investigation of the Arts, in 2013. She is currently a student at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains.
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Acknowledgments
Marcela Viteri, Romain Baujard, Andrés Padilla Domene, Rajwa Thomé, Ricardo Colmenares, Jorge Márquez, Manon de Boer, Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, Faye Mullen, Thibaut Cordenier, Régina Demina, Youssef Rhaibi, Tereza Klenorová, Jonathan Coles, Amanda Grannas, Hossam Helmy, Océane Oufbert, Flor et Sâcki, Stella Virgi, Grace Oktaviani, Vanessa Meunier, Eszter Szabó, Isabelle Le Roy, Magnolie Nanthavong, Ricardo Sobero, Luisa et Manuela, Jorge Rodriguez Mazzini, Jorge Jácome, Kate Krolle, Bárbara Palomino, Gabriel Desplanque, Kevin Voinet, Dane Komljen, Aurélie Brouet, Jean-René Lorand, Blandine Tourneux
