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“I am very tired – Je suis très fatigué” (00:04:59) by Juan Carlos García-Sampedro Ferrero, Spain, 2023
“I am very tired – Je suis très fatigué” is a tribute to one of the most unclassifiable films in the history of cinema “Last year at Marienbad” (L’Année dernière à Marienbad) a 1961 film by Alain Resnais. An enigmatic film of pure experimental cinema that even today, more than 60 years later, continues to be avant-garde cinema.
This video-creation aims to be faithful to the essence of the original film, recreating mystery, paradox and tragedy. A formal and aesthetic stylization that delves into the most transgressive aspects of Renais’ film that, being coherent with its aesthetics and formal aspects, gives another turn of the screw in a cinematographic abstraction, taking it towards the most conceptual video art.
Director bio
I studied film at the TAI, video at CES, video art at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and script at the EICTV, in Cuba.
Since then, I have developed my professional career moving through various fields of the audiovisual field: direction, production, script, editing or camera; as well as in distribution, festival management, specialized criticism, audiovisual journalism, magazine publishing, film club management and as advisor to the Ministry of Culture.
I have worked as a filmmaker for TVE, Tele 5 and National Geographic. I have also made a documentary feature film, several fiction short films, some documentaries and countless video creations that have been seen in more than 200 festivals around the world, many of them award-winning. In addition, my work has been exhibited in the Central Library of Havana, the Cervantes Center of Tetuán and the Santa Mónica Art Center of Barcelona, among other unconventional spaces.
Director, writer, producer: Juan Carlos García-Sampedro Ferrero
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.
