An audiovisual poem about writing and the creation of dreamlike poetic universes, freely inspired by the work of Argentine author Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972).
Using the analogy of weaving, the piece explores a form of writing that doesn’t operate solely with abstract and disembodied ideas. Instead, it’s rooted in the body’s sensory experience, involving even the most subtle expressions. To weave a poem is to link letters together little by little, while the hands that write discreetly express that revolution of the intimate. The entire body participates when it comes to weaving one’s own voice, in a process that isn’t afraid to navigate fear and unease.
Letters are interwoven to form a lyrical world whose sounds and imagery freely evoke some of the recurrent themes in Pizarnik’s work, such as the shadow and red death.The two attract and repel each other, ultimately giving way to the body that writes and dreams poetry.
COUNTRY : Spain YEAR : 2025 DURATION : 10 ARTIST, DIRECTOR : Úrsula San Cristóbal VIDEO, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, TEXTILE, CALLIGRAPHY, COLLAGE : Úrsula San Cristóbal SPECIAL THANKS TO : Casa Aymat and Fabra i Coats
Bio : Úrsula San Cristóbal is an intermedia artist and researcher working across experimental music, performance, video art, weaving, and calligraphy. She holds a PhD in Art History and Musicology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where her award-winning dissertation focused on sound and music in the work of Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat.
Her video art has been featured in international festivals across Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., including FILE (Brazil), WRO Media Art Biennale (Poland), and the Miami New Media Festival. She has been a guest artist at Videoformes 2023 (France) and artist-in-residence at Fabra i Coats and Nau Estruch (Spain). Her work has received several distinctions, including mentions at the Girona Film Festival and Ibrida Festival.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
