Acta Nocturna

12’34, Germany, 2021

Director: Pako Quijada, Choreography and movement direction: Anna-Lise Marie Hearn, Costume supervision: Andrea Servert, Motion graphics: Forat Sami

Serving as a parodic promotional video against insomnia, and combining choreographed movement with a surreal tone, this film highlights the demand placed on customers and the often ill-defined line separating them from becoming the product.

Pako Quijada is a multidisciplinary artist, predominantly working with photography and film. They studied Photography and Filmmaking in San Sebastián, Spain. Their work explores the psychological gravitas of emotions and the construction of memory. With cinema as a constant referent, their work mixes magic and the surreal with the lived experience, eventually bringing existential questions to the forefront. Analytical in its approach, but visceral in its result, their artistic output places inherently political and highly personal topics into a universal arena. They are currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.

The film will be part of the screening on 28.10.2022, 18:30-20:00, Festival and Congress Centre – Varna.