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Alexandre, Borja

Borja Alexandre (Spain)
biography

participant in
CologneOFF IV – 4th Cologne Online Film Festival 2008
VideoChannel Cologne – Found Footage!
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Video title:
“Suicide”
2007, 8:00

Experimental short movie based on recycled picture, wich aim is to make a suicide´s relfexion. Starting from an educative and terapeutic video (50 minuts) from USA government at 1930 (free rights video, from www.archive.org). After the 1929 crisis, there were a big amount of suicides. USA government made a big campaign in order to prevent it. An actor represents a man who has received a bad new and decides to put end to his life.

The music is by the author Borja F. Alexandre and Sonom.org, based on the research and exploration of sound as the fundamental medium of universal communication and as base for integration of other paradigmes. Experimentation funded on the physics and mathematics of music, that through the amplification of the emotions pretends to indulge the human perception and extend it’s mind towards the Harmony and the Chaos.