Rafael Balboa's Online Portfolio

Rafael Balboa Rivera filmmaker / cineasta / visual artist / artista visual


2001 Homage to Robert Wiene and his 1919 Dr’s Caligary Cabinet / Homenaje a Robert Wiene
16mm. B+W. 6:00min. Production: Cabaret Voltaire Cinema. Mexico 2001.

2002 Contrappunti / Counterpoint / Contrapunto
8mm Regular. Color. 5:00min.
¨this short film was inspired on the Sergei`s Einsenstein theory of the counterpoint between Images + sound, but the idea was create a forth dimension on the audience with sound, music, memory and everyday images…”
Screenings/Festivals / Presentaciones
Centro de la Imagen / Center of the Image 2002. Mexico City.
Mex-Parismental 2002. Paris, France.
La Soireé de Arts/Mateurs. 2003. Paris, France.
Mex-Parismental 2005. Paris, France.
Festival Signes de Nuit 2005. Paris, France.

2003 trés Muybridge / Crazy Muybridge / Muy Muybridge
16mm. B+W. 7:00min.
“This is a half abstract simphony between music of Gustav Holst (Mars: The bringer of war),animation of the XIX Century photographer Eadweard Muybridge and some dummies a la Man Ray…the idea was to restore the perception of the Muybridge photographs more than hundred years after he made them.”
Screenings/Festivals / Presentaciones
Mex-Parismental 2003. Paris,France.
ANTIMATTER: Festival of Underground Film & Video. Victoria,BC,Canada 2003.
eKsperim(e)nto Film & Video Festival. Manila, Philippinnes 2004 / Selección Oficial.
KAMARIKUTAN PAGDIWATA FESTIVAL 2004 . Manila, Philippines 2004.
VIDEOEX 2004 : Internationales Experimentalfilm & Video Festival. Zurich, Switzerland.
Festival Signes de Nuit 2005. Paris, France.

2003 Colours / Couleurs / Colores
16mm.Color. 4:00min.
Hand Painted Film (cameraless-film) / Pelicula Pintada a Mano
“This is a whole living entity with Autechre´s noise and abstract images Influenced by Stan Brakhage and paintings of the neo-abstract expresionism of the XX century. This film is entirely made without any optical printer device.
Screenings/Festivals / Presentaciones
ANTIMATTER: Festival of Underground Film & Video. Victoria,BC,Canada 2003.
eKsperim(e)nto Film & Video Festival. Manila, Philippinnes 2004. Selección Oficial.
KAMARIKUTAN PAGDIWATA FESTIVAL 2004. Manila, Philippinnes 2004.
Mex-Parismental 2004. Paris, France.
VIDEOEX 2005 : Internationales Experimentalfilm & Video Festival. Zurich, Switzerland

2004-2005 Paintings in the Optical Printer (Work in Progress) Installation
2004-2005 Pinturas en la Impresora Òptica (En construcción) Instalación
Winner Proyect of the Multimedia Art Center Fellowship (Multimedia Art Center, CNA).
Proyecto Acreedor al Apoyo a la producción e Investigación en Artes y Medios 2004 (Centro Multimedia, CNA).

2004-2005 Mix-media Performance/ Trinchera Ensamble Collective (Public Spaces Intervention)
2004-2005 Performance Multimedia/ Colectivo Trinchera Ensamble (Intervención de Espacios Públicos)
Screenings/Festivals / Presentaciones
1er. Festival de Música Improvisada, Ex/templo del Claustro de Sor Juana.Ciudad de México.
6º. Festival Geografías Suaves. Convento de Santo Domingo. Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México
Festival Música Electroacústica, Centro Cultural España. Cuidad de México.
3rd. International Festival of Performing Arts, Chopo Museum, Mexico City. (Closing Show).
3er. Festival Internacional de Performance, Museo del Chopo, Cuidad de México (Evento de Clausura).

kontakt: rafabal@yahoo.com + (52) 55 5658-8763 Mexico City / Cuidad de México