El exodo de los olvidados
2011
El exodo de los olvidados (2011), video still
"During El exodo de los olvidados´s creation process I was reading South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917: The Photographs of Frank Hurley (2001)."
Aerial photograph of the Patagonian Ice Fields, "one of many I found when was investigating maps and photographs of the region," explains the artist.
"I started working on this piece while I was studying in Berlin, doing online research on the Patagonian Ice Field (a formation on the far South of the Andes Mountain Range).
Fernando Armani, a climber friend with whom I had worked in the 1990s, in the Ar Detroy collective, was a guide to the region’s high mountains. His presence was a great asset to production logistics, and he contributed with his knowledge and contacts. For months, we studied a way to set up a base camp for faster access to the film’s locations. The initial idea was to work with the golden light of dawn. This meant using the light up until the last possible moment during the day and then starting back to the base in the dark, crossing the dimly lit ice fields with huge crevasses. During research and pre-production, we checked maps of the region and studied various accounts of expeditions in the area.
My creative process is related to a permanent quest for new challenges. To contemplate what has never been contemplated. An instant of intensity.
I conceive my work as a haiku, which I rewrite from time to time, seeking to develop different facets of one single piece."
Charly Nijensohn in a statement to PLATFORM:VB (October 2013)
El exodo de los olvidados (2011) | Charly Nijensohn
Video | 7’23”, stereo, color, 16 : 9, loop
Solaris (1972) | Andrei Tarkovsky
"My main influences are related to Werner Herzog, Akira Kurosawa and Andrei Tarkovski's cinema", affirms Charly Nijensohn.
Dreams (1990) | Akira Kurosawa
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) | Werner Herzog