NO DISTANCE
A film by Patricio Alfaro & Fiorella Angelini
Chile - UK 
June 2020

1. Description

A short video made by the Chilean artists Patricio Alfaro and Fiorella Angelini. 

Taking correspondences as a starting point, we seek for unsent letters, unanswered emails, unanswered videos, and words that are going to be forgotten soon. Letters between friends that are produced and transformed into a moving image in a collaborative project. 

NO DISTANCE is an exercise between two friends living in different cities and trying to stay closer to each other. After living in the UK for two years, Patricio is now living in Valparaíso (Chile) and Fiorella is still living in London. Their voices and narration respond to the idea of belonging to the landscape from the cities they are living in, and the video a poetic correspondence produced in the online space made during the lockdown.

The video explores the concepts of territory, friendship, and migration. The final edition is a short video responding to the video submitted previously by the other artist. A moving image, made by fragments of home-made videos including the artist's voices.

2. About the artists

Patricio Alfaro (1988) 
Chilean director and cinematographer, known for “Las Plantas” (2015) and “If You Listen Carefully” (2015), and for creating the website LaVitrola.cl with over 800 video-clips and counting. He studied an MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film at University College London (2018-2019 and Graduated in Film and Television from the University of Chile, where he quickly started working as a runner in video-clips of major Chilean artists. In 2009, with a group of fellow students, he created the site "La Vitrola", an audiovisual collective which films Latin American musicians playing their songs live in one take without cuts. He has recorded to this day more than 1100 music videos of different genres. In 2016, La Vitrola won the "Premio a la Música Nacional Presidente de la República" given to them by Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile.

Fiorella Angelini (1990)
Chilean artist currently studying a Master in Fine Art (Media) at the Slade School of Art at University College of London UCL. I studied a Bachelor in Fine Art (2009-2012) and Bachelor in Pedagogy (2013) at Finis Terrae University in Santiago, Chile. I have exhibited in Santiago at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts), Museo de Artes Visuales MAVI (Visual Arts Museum), Galería Balmaceda Arte Joven, Centro Cultural de España Chile (Spanish Cultural Centre), in New York at the Local Project Art Space & The Local NYC; in London at the Slade Research Centre UCL, Framers Gallery, and Barbican Arts Group Trust.

3. Contact:

Patricio Alfaro:
patricio.alfaro.astorga@gmail.com
https://alfaropatricio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/alfaropatricio/

Fiorella Angelini:
fiorella.angelinip@gmail.com 
www.fiorellaangelini.com
www.instagram.com/fiorellalunaangelini

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No Distance - A film by Patricio Alfaro & Fiorella Angelini