Arreta
Documentary / Fiction / Essay
Duration: 30 min approx
Language: Basque, English, Ruro
Original format: 2K
Projection format: DCP 2K
Director: Mikel R. Nieto
Production: Mikel R. Nieto
Teorema Films – Benito Macias
Carmen Pardo
Ixiar Rozas
Jone San Martin
Irati Urrestarazu
Alex Mendizabal
Sonia Ciriza
Oihane Iragüen
Benito Macias
Mikel R. Nieto
A project under development.
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Wait and have nothing.
Wait no more.
Being alone with the wait.
Not knowing what to expect.
A wait full of ears.
Hopelessly wait and listen.
Mute voices.
Silences without bodies.
Listen to the wait itself.
The listening body that waits.
Temporary overflows.
Displacements of attention.
Forgotten times.
Timeless memories.
Thanks as promised.
In waiting times.
Among us.
Godot will not come.
Without knowing it.
The waiting society.
Director Bio
Curator, artist, researcher and filmaker.
He studied art in San Sebastian, Madrid and Barcelona. For some years he has been deeply involved in phonographic practice and the resulting theory. He has given workshops in a number of cultural centres and universities. He forms part of the team behind the sound map of the Basque Country, soinumapa.net, and Hots! Radio, as well as the Mediateletipos.net dissemination portal. With José Luis Espejo and Xabier Erkizia, he currently coordinates the Observatorio de la Escucha (Listening Observatory).
He has worked on numerous occasions in partnership with dancer and choreographer Jone San Martin in different dance projects for his sound design. His book %22Dark Sound%22 was recently launched by German publisher Gruenrekorder. It describes research he conducted in 2014 on the impact of the noise, direct or indirect, generated by the oil industry in its different phases of development among towns, the environment and wildlife in the Amazonian jungle in Ecuador.