Claudio Zulian

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Claudio Zulian (Campodarsego, Italy) is a filmmaker, video-artist, musician and writer. He has a PhD in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts by the University of Paris VIII and he directs the production company Acteon while working in Spain and France.

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Claudio Zulian's career has developed mainly in cinema, video installations and theatre. In 1993, he founded Acteon, a production company based in Barcelona, through which he produces his works. In 1998, the Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) hosted his exhibition Scenes from Raval (Escenas del Raval, 1998) [1] [2] where he seeks to give visibility to the environment and people of this Barcelona neighborhood. At the same time, Claudio directed a documentary on the same subject that is also part of the installation. [3]

In 2002, he published the book Horas de la ciudad (2002), [4] a compilation of 24 short stories about the urban fabric and its inhabitants. His interest in showing the relationship between society and the media in a new light is present in his later works such as the photography installation Visions Of Carmel (Visions del Carmel, 2003) or the video installation The Future (L’avenir, 2004) [5] – a documentary version was awarded worldwide - where he reflects on the daily life and hopes of a deindustrialised mining village in Northern France. In The Shifting City (A través del Carmel, 2006), [6] planned both as a documentary and as a video installation, he received the Barcelona City Council Award [7] and the Cinema National Award of Catalonia. [8] [9] Zulian's interest in those people excluded from audiovisual image in media is again clear in his portrait of a Romanian community in Just Like Paradise (A lo mejor, 2007). [10] The same happens in his return to the Carmel district, working with its teenagers in After Violence (Después de la violencia, 2009) [11] as well as in It Won’t Be The Same (No será lo mismo, 2010). [12] Moreover, this interest is reflected in his evocation of a better future in Enthusiasm (Entusiasmo, 2012), [13] prepared in collaboration with several groups of inhabitants and immigrants of Salt (a neighborhood in Girona, Spain).

In 2011, Zulian's documentary Fortuny & The Magic Lantern (Fortuny y la lámpara maravillosa, 2010) [14] was selected at the AlJazeera International Documentary Film Festival [15] and nominated for Best Art Documentary at the PriMED. [16] It explores the relationships between East and West through Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo's designs and sceneries. In 2013, the Jeu de Paume in Paris hosted a retrospective of his works and presents his new creation: Power no power (2013) [17] In 2014, the fiction film Born (2014) [18] was released, which is a drama set in the 18th century. Through the stories of three historical characters, the film explores the beginning of intimate and social interactions that are as true today as they were in the past.

Filmography & video installations

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  2. ↑ "Escenas del Raval - IDENSITAT". IDENSITAT.
  3. ↑ "ACTEON • Cine • TV - ESCENAS DEL RAVAL". acteon.es.
  4. ↑ Zulian, Claudio (2002). Horas de la ciudad. Calima Ediciones, S.L. ISBN   9788489972605.
  5. ↑ L'Avenir mcu.es (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ "A través del Carmel". catalanfilmsdb.cat.
  7. ↑ ""A través del Carmel", Premio Ciutat de Barcelona". Fotogramas. February 2010.
  8. ↑ "Claudio Zulin, Premi Nacional de Cinema de la Generalitat - culturacat.com". culturacat.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Premis Nacionals de Cultura 2010 - Cinema - Claudio Zulian - 3Cat" . Retrieved 4 May 2024– via www.ccma.cat.
  10. ↑ Eli Wenceslao. "Claudio Zulian. A lo mejor i Entusiasme II - ACVIC Centre d'Arts Contemporànies". ACVIC Centre d'Arts Contemporànies.
  11. ↑ Ediciones El País (2 November 2008). "Claudio Zulian refleja la Barcelona de los más débiles". EL PAÍS.
  12. ↑ "El curt 'No será lo mismo' explora la imaginació social i política amb els joves". terrassadigital.cat. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  13. ↑ Jordi Camps i Linnell. "El Punt Avui - Notícia: Claudio Zulian convida a pensar la 'ciutat somiada'". El Punt Avui.
  14. ↑ "Imprescindibles - Fortuny y la lámpara maravillosa". RTVE.es. 21 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "Notícia - TV3 & Co. - Televisió de Catalunya". tv3.cat.
  16. ↑ "FORTUNY ET LA LAMPE MERVEILLEUSE". primed.tv. 12 September 2011.
  17. ↑ "Histoires d'avenir". Le Jeu de Paume.
  18. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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