Director Biography – Alvaro Collar
Alvaro Collar (Madrid, 1981) is an experimental filmmaker and video artist. He is a founding member of the video art collective Haz! and an associate at AVAM (Madrid Visual Artist Association).
Specializing in low-resolution video, he has produced notable works such as “Centrifuga” (Centrifuge, 2007), securing the First MovilFilmFest’s Best Original Idea prize, and “Myriad” (2012), which received the Movilfilmfest Tenerife Best Video Award and Urban TV Best Shortfilm Award. Additionally, he won the Minute Movie Cup twice: first with “Onirica” (Oneiric, 2009) and another with “Quinta habitacion” (Fifth Room, 2006), representing Spain at the UNICA’s World Minute Movie Cup in 2009 and 2006.
His work has been exhibited globally at venues including Medialab Madrid; Noche de Luna Llena, Segovia; Galeria Cruce Contemporaneo; Espacio Menos Uno, NIU Espai Artistic Contemporani, Barcelona; MEM Bilbao, Vallecas Experimental Film Festival; Pamplona Film Festival; CEC Barcelona; World Minute Movie Cup, Daegu, South Korea; Mobilefest, Sao Paulo; and Microfilms, Lisbon.
Currently, Alvaro Collar resides and works in China, serving as the dean of the School of Cultural Technology at Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University.
Specializing in low-resolution video, he has produced notable works such as “Centrifuga” (Centrifuge, 2007), securing the First MovilFilmFest’s Best Original Idea prize, and “Myriad” (2012), which received the Movilfilmfest Tenerife Best Video Award and Urban TV Best Shortfilm Award. Additionally, he won the Minute Movie Cup twice: first with “Onirica” (Oneiric, 2009) and another with “Quinta habitacion” (Fifth Room, 2006), representing Spain at the UNICA’s World Minute Movie Cup in 2009 and 2006.
His work has been exhibited globally at venues including Medialab Madrid; Noche de Luna Llena, Segovia; Galeria Cruce Contemporaneo; Espacio Menos Uno, NIU Espai Artistic Contemporani, Barcelona; MEM Bilbao, Vallecas Experimental Film Festival; Pamplona Film Festival; CEC Barcelona; World Minute Movie Cup, Daegu, South Korea; Mobilefest, Sao Paulo; and Microfilms, Lisbon.
Currently, Alvaro Collar resides and works in China, serving as the dean of the School of Cultural Technology at Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University.
Synopsis
“Mother’s House” is a contemplative video art piece that delves into the theme of mortality through the lens of the unattainable return to the mother’s house. This metaphorical house serves as a dual representation, embodying both the comforting embrace of the childhood home and the protective sanctuary of the mother’s womb.
Set against a backdrop of abstracted and pixelated visuals, the video explores the inherent tension between the yearning for a return to innocence and the inevitability of life’s transience. The use of low-resolution video not only serves as an aesthetic choice but also metaphorically mirrors the fragmented nature of memories and the elusive quest to recapture the essence of one’s origin.
Shot with a mobile phone.
Set against a backdrop of abstracted and pixelated visuals, the video explores the inherent tension between the yearning for a return to innocence and the inevitability of life’s transience. The use of low-resolution video not only serves as an aesthetic choice but also metaphorically mirrors the fragmented nature of memories and the elusive quest to recapture the essence of one’s origin.
Shot with a mobile phone.