From Above

Leo Gracés

Country Argentina

Year

Runtime 3 min

Image Color

Programme MIVAE Exhibition

Synopsis

Real surveillance-camera footage — crime, control, punishment — collides here with the aesthetics of classic silent cinema and specially chosen music. The collision produces an ironic yet emotionally charged effect, laying bare the raw drama of human bodies caught in the lens of a surveillance camera.

About the Director

Leonardo Gracés was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lives and works. He is a filmmaker, photographer and audiovisual producer. He studied at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts, as well as film at CIEVYC. In 2006 he won the first Telele Cortos prize; in 2012 he won the first-prize photography acquisition of the Biblioteca Nacional Argentina; and in 2018 he held his first solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta.

Festivals & Awards

Selection (Selected Works of MIVAE program) — O-FEST
First Prize — Telele Cortos | 2006
First Prize (photography acquisition) — Biblioteca Nacional Argentina | 2012
Solo exhibition — Centro Cultural Recoleta | 2018