Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace

2016
Single-channel video, sound, 4 min

In Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace we see the encounter of two bodies in a liminal dimension, a place where movements preserve the memory of the past and create a synthesis of the entire action.
The work was created with a mix of body projection, light painting, real time randomization and CGI animation techniques.

Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace is one of the chapters of DROP.


A work by APOTROPIA
Performed by Antonella Mignone, Cristiano Panepuccia
Music: Cristiano Panepuccia


SCREENINGS:

2018
- CuVo Festival de Videoarte, Art Room Espacio Experimental, Madrid | Museo Francisco Sobrino, Guadalajara, Spain
- Marathon, curated by Alberto Ceresoli, Italy

2017
- FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Art Gallery of Fiesp Cultural Center - Ruth Cardoso, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Hamburg International ShortFilmFestival - Deframed Competition, Hamburg, Germany
- 30th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France
- 20minmax Kunst-Rolle | Art Reel, Museum für Konkrete Kunst und Design, Ingolstadt, Germany
- Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- TIME is Love Screening - International video art program curated by Kisito Assangni:
     ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
     Artspace, Tel Aviv, Israel
     Future Imperfect Symposium, Plymouth University, UK
     Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
     Gallery Mcube, Lalitpur, Nepal
     Experiencia Hiedra Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
     Strangloscope Festival, Florianopolis, Brazil
- Mercado de Arte Contemporáneo, screening curated by FIVA Festival, Córdoba, Argentina
- Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palma, curated by FIVA Festival, Palma, Majorca, Spain
- FIVAC Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey, Camagüey, Cuba
- Images Contre Nature International festival of experimental video, Marseille, France
- Besides the Screen, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico
- PLAY Semana de Videoarte, Corrientes, Argentina
- FASE Encuentro de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología, curated by PLAY Semana de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- CLOSE UP Vallarta Festival Internacional de Video Creación, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
- Boston Short Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- R.E.D. International Film Festival / dance-art-cinema, Eina, Norway
- Filmideo, Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Proceso de Error, Valparaíso, Chile
- Sardinia Film Festival - Video Art section, Sassari, Italy
- Third Culture Film Festival, Loft22, Hong Kong
- Athens Video Dance Project, Athens, Greece

2016
- Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia
- C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr / Media Art Fair, C.A.R. Video Lounge curated by Directors Lounge, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen, Germany
- Bienal Internacional de Video y Cine Contemporáneo VideoFest 2K16, Baja California, Mexico
- Espacio Enter, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canarias, Spain
- FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Bucharest International Dance Film Festival - The Digital Body Exhibition, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- Network C.A.R. V curated by Julia Murakami, GalleryJinsun, Seoul, South Korea
- International Video Festival DigitalBigScreen, Delavski dom Trbovlje, Trbovlje New-Media City, Slovenia
- ARTSevilla16 - Encuentro Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
- International Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Besides the Screen International Conference, Coventry University, United Kingdom
- Ibrida, Festival delle Arti Intermediali curated by Vertov Project, Fabbrica delle Candele, Forlì, Italy
- Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Festival Tous Courts | Experimental Short Film Competition, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media-Art Festival, Kyev, Ukraine
- 48 Stunden Neukölln - Directors Lounge à la carte, Hi-ReS! Berlin, Germany
- Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain
- CutOut Fest - International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro, Mexico
- Electrofringe, Sydney, Australia
- Tindirindis International Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Bang Awards - International Animation Awards, Torres Vedras, Portugal
- BNL Media Art Festival, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, curated by Valentino Catricalà, Rome, Italy


AWARDS / HONORS:

3rd Prize - International Video Festival DigitalBigScreen 2016, Delavski dom Trbovlje, Trbovlje New-Media City, Slovenia


APOTROPIA (Antonella Mignone + Cristiano Panepuccia) 2021