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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:36:39 +0000 https://tracyvalcarcel.com en https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Cover Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:53:33 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Cover TRACY VALCARCEL&nbsp;WORK&nbsp;&nbsp;INFO&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; https://tracyvalcarcel.com/AXOMAMA Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:36:39 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/AXOMAMA AXOMAMA27 min, Documentary, Canada, 2025 <img width="1920" height="1077" width_o="1920" height_o="1077" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f46de2df20843d0c6332d889beb4e43dca802a126092886b19be539926d8388/axomama_still_web_1920.jpg" data-mid="228813163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f46de2df20843d0c6332d889beb4e43dca802a126092886b19be539926d8388/axomama_still_web_1920.jpg" /> AXOMAMA follows the life of Alberto and his relatives, a family of potato custodians in the Andes. The film weaves a poetic parallel between the potato’s journey and the narrator’s complex tracing of her own origins. From being a sacred gift to being one of the world’s most ubiquitous foods, the humble potato emerges as both metaphor and mirror of resistance in the face of survived displacement, as the narrator grapples with questions of identity and belonging.Written and Directed by Tracy Valcárcel Produced by Tracy Valcárcel and Vjosana Shkurti Picture Editor and Filmmaking Mentorship: Vjosana Shkurti Cinematography / Camera: Tracy Valcárcel, Natalia Mont Sound recordist: Irazema Vera https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Yield Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:45:29 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Yield YIELDCanada, 2025, Video. 7:32 min Erin Hill, Michaela Gerussi and Tracy Valcárcel <img width="1920" height="1077" width_o="1920" height_o="1077" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c2552c679af412deb3dcecbb35ad763fc2c705ca98196941e51f23b1d2f1eef/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-03-25-a-las-13.16.49.jpg" data-mid="228770605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c2552c679af412deb3dcecbb35ad763fc2c705ca98196941e51f23b1d2f1eef/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-03-25-a-las-13.16.49.jpg" />YIELD (2025) takes a specific approach to cycles and the legibility of the so-called natural world. It deals with the visual indeterminacy of twilight, considering how we orient ourselves in cycles of time through a granular attention to light and colour.Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and created while in an artist residency in Spain. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/the-moon-rises-in-four-parts Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:10:08 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/the-moon-rises-in-four-parts The Moon RisesCanada, 2020, Video <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/624d2ba236ed85fa654c92d1d17a97a8a37e7dc525e3db825342efee05548bce/Secuencia-01.02_54_41_00.Imagen-fija017.png" data-mid="68048373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/624d2ba236ed85fa654c92d1d17a97a8a37e7dc525e3db825342efee05548bce/Secuencia-01.02_54_41_00.Imagen-fija017.png" /> read blog post The Moon Rises in Four Parts is both a durational performance and a site-specific short film taking place over four days in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. The film documents a dialogue between mover, camera and environment, tracing the progression of familiarity as it echoes the daily progression of the low tide and it’s incremental shifts at Five Islands Provincial Park. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Last-Place-We-Met Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:55:03 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Last-Place-We-Met last place we metFrance, 2016, 8m 35s, HD, 16:9 Directed, Choreographed and Edited by Michaela Gerussi and Tracy ValcarcelPerformance: Michaela GerussiCamera: Tracy Valcarcel A collaborative video dance piece co-created and directed by Michaela Gerussi (performance) and Tracy Valcarcel (camera). A reciprocal dialogue between lens, environment and body, Last place we met is comprised of short, site-specific vignettes of spatial explorations. Moments of chasing light are intersected by moving images which immerse us into sensory portraits of places.In this ode to space, we enter a timeless ecology through the camera’s soft gaze. The camera assumes an unattached regard of the environment, establishing an on-screen space which is created collaboratively by that which is seen and that which is seeing. Meanwhile a woman makes herself present, orienting herself; becoming the space through movement, tracking time through attention. Together they are the space. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efdb3f4333a203ae8adce23ba384af61f718e00d2faeae0707600e98d62bca0f/still2.png" data-mid="68048375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efdb3f4333a203ae8adce23ba384af61f718e00d2faeae0707600e98d62bca0f/still2.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdc700392149d03510619fb5a9411e3f31c80e31639c69ee4278891fd9b4f01f/still4.png" data-mid="68048376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdc700392149d03510619fb5a9411e3f31c80e31639c69ee4278891fd9b4f01f/still4.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe06aee8bfce358e16bb551db65b1441b826ca8676fed95cd1becc5689ae1c04/still1.png" data-mid="68048374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe06aee8bfce358e16bb551db65b1441b826ca8676fed95cd1becc5689ae1c04/still1.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f36d15a7709c28d25acc9f3f191438334c8e7dc5442ca4d7504a34d84e19c18/still6.png" data-mid="68048377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f36d15a7709c28d25acc9f3f191438334c8e7dc5442ca4d7504a34d84e19c18/still6.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cba211729ebea057c5825f73e5f22f564218dc540d599c245f1365a51fe779ec/still7.png" data-mid="68048378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cba211729ebea057c5825f73e5f22f564218dc540d599c245f1365a51fe779ec/still7.png" /> last place we met France, 2016, 8m 35s, HD, 16:9 Directed, Choreographed and Edited by Michaela Gerussi and Tracy Valcarcel Performance: Michaela Gerussi Camera: Tracy Valcarcel A collaborative video dance piece co-created and directed by Michaela Gerussi (performance) and Tracy Valcarcel (camera). A reciprocal dialogue between lens, environment and body, Last place we met is comprised of short, site-specific vignettes of spatial explorations. Moments of chasing light are intersected by moving images which immerse us into sensory portraits of places. In this ode to space, we enter a timeless ecology through the camera’s soft gaze. The camera assumes an unattached regard of the environment, establishing an on-screen space which is created collaboratively by that which is seen and that which is seeing. Meanwhile a woman makes herself present, orienting herself; becoming the space through movement, tracking time through attention. Together they are the space. September 2018, 14-page long article in the special edition of WomenCinemakers (page 30-31) https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Partir Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:41:32 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Partir Partir Canada, 2016, Video A dance between the camera-eye and the setting. Partir is a moving photograph that calls for the site-specific nature of the space to create a nuanced movement performance. Specific notions of time (to wait) and place (to leave) are touched upon through the use of slowness and stillness as choreographic means. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Sobremesa Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:58:37 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Sobremesa Sobremesa Canada, 2012, Multimedia installation Sobremesa is a video installation that explores culture and its role in forming our notions of family. The Spanish term "sobremesa" refers to the Latin tradition of remaining at the table to linger over an evening meal. Four distinct narratives are projected onto individual plates attempting to recreate the complex social space that is the family table. Visitors serve as participants as they are invited to sit and take in the multiple voices. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Underneath-This-Dress-I-Unfold Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:00:45 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Underneath-This-Dress-I-Unfold Underneath This Dress, I Unfold Canada, 2012, 7m 53s., HD video, 16:9, colour A woman attempts to reconstruct the details of trauma. She remembers herself surrounded by trees, leaves, layers of fabric all covering, uncovering her face. In her attempt to reconstruct the scene, she unlayers the details of a story she has tried to forget. She battles between uncovering her memories and covering herself from the viewer's gaze. "Underneath this dress, I unfold" addresses the paradox found in the process of remembering whatt we voluntarily try to forget. In this work, the camera plays both the witness to a remembering and the intrusive gaze the woman battles against, making the viewer transgress boundaries of intimacy as they become participants in the woman’s process of remembering. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Rue-Milton Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:07:47 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/Rue-Milton Rue Milton Canada, 2012, 1 m 00 sec., HD video, 16:9, colour, stereo A minute of soundscape on Milton Street, Montreal. This piece is a document of an autumn afternoon in the city of Montreal, its passersby, cars, vans and bikers. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/No-where Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:07:49 +0000 tracy valcarcel r. https://tracyvalcarcel.com/No-where No(where) Canada, 2012, 4 m 44 sec., HD video, 16:9, colour, stereo (No)where is a video about the pass of time in non-places such as the waiting room of a hospital. How do we experience time in places where nothing goes on other than time performing itself? Shot in two different cities, (no)where describes an experience of disconnection with the here and now, and the gradual loss of spatial perception.