https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2Es5YB8zs&t=5m30s[/embed] For my last post I left this film: ‘The Seasons of the Year’ of Artavazd Peleshyan. It is a brilliant black and white documentary about shepherds living in the highlands of Armenia. I leave you with this powerfull sequence of the film. Thank you Der Greif, once again, and I hope you have enjoyed my posts!

The work of the mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide is quite inspiring to me. She is working, mainly, around her own cultural environment in Mexico, with the indigenous population, the land, their inhabitants and the traditions. And I also like her beautiful self-portraits. Graciela Iturbide

mg class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-46312" src="https://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/1307302-244x400.jpg" alt="1307302" width="244" height="400" /> ‘Of Walking in Ice’ is a book by Werner Herzog. A diary about a journey made on foot in the winter of 1974, from Munich to Paris. He walked for three weeks, alone, in the cold. He believed that with this, his close friend, the historian Lotte Eisner, would survive a deep sickness. During the way he is documenting what he sees and feels, talks about films and thoughts related with this loneliness. This idea of a walk to reach some kind of cure is something meaningful to me.

imeo video_id="29100075" width="700" height="700“] Peter Lucas, an artist based in New York, found 200 small photographs at a flea market in Rio de Janeiro, later identified as photographs of a weekend photographer, Orizon Caneiro Muniz. Most of the pictures were of women on the beach in Ipanema in the early 60's. With the entire archive, found later, Peter Lucas began a film project about this discovery, as he explains: “Using the entire archive, there are several stories in the photos. The core of the film will be the relationship between the photographer and his circle of friends. We will also explore the political nature of these images since they were taken on that nostalgic eve of the 1964 Brazilian dictatorship. It was also the last hour of the classic black and white snapshot before the widespread introduction of Kodacolor film in 1964. While these photos were being taken, Tom Jobim was writing his most famous songs a few blocks away and Bossa Nova would introduce Ipanema to the world. These photos also documented that threshold moment when Brazilian women begin to change in so many ways. Their style, their beauty, and the way they walked the beach would forever captivate the world's imagination.” The Last Hour of Summer Peter Lucas talks about the project here.

mg class="alignnone wp-image-46304 size-large" src="https://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/unnamed-700x700.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="700" height="700" /> Rui Almeida is a sound artist living in Guimarães working mainly with found sounds and improvisation with objects. It's an intense and sensitive universe that he creates. We had some collaborations before like ‘Vidro|Água’ video/sound performance, the soundwork 'Glass over water under light' with Nuno Miranda Ribeiro (released on Green field recordings) and ‘These walls resemble absence’, his last work as MUfi.re (released by the hungarian label 3leaves) which i would like to focus a bit more, transcribing this work's introduction text: ‘The sounds of These Walls Resemble Absence were recorded by Rui Almeida (MUfi.re) in an abandoned factory (located in northern Portugal), a complex of pavilions that are now in a deep state of degradation. In a recording process based on intuition and instinct, firstly, we can imagine objects being handled, picked and dragged but, at some point, the atmosphere feels strangely natural, as if wind and randomness, a sort of harmony in chaos is playing, or rising from latency. Objects do seem to have a voice, while being stimulated, forming a multitude of sound syllables such, that while the process endures, we can think of a redefinition of these objects and space, in a very particular interpretation, much different than what a factory imagery could suggest. A body of sound that feels large, spacious, minimalistic but complex, where you can breathe and still become aware of the tiniest detail and texture. We can wonder about what is and what is not incidental or just let ourselves be immersed in this new/old space.’ Nuno Miranda Ribeiro massa última

Hi, First of all, I want to thank Der Greif for this nice opportunity to be the guest for this week and share with you a couple of things I like. SEED|SAP was the first project where I started to be interested in working around personal themes, having my life as the main motor for creation.