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Isabel Rocamora (Barcelona/ London1968) is an artist filmmaker with a strong background in performance who makes screen-based work for installation, cinema and art broadcast. Her work investigates the experience of being human: perception, changing states of consciousness and the relationship between place, the physical and the emotional. Rocamora trained in film at Bristol University, U.K. and Maine Workshops, U.S, in physical performace at Jacques Lecoq, Paris and with butoh master Daisuke Yoshimoto.

As co-Artistic Director of Momentary Fusion ( with Sophy Griffiths, 1993 – 2000), and Artistic Director of Infinito Productions (2000 – onwards) she created investigative performance and new media work, pioneering the concept of ‘anti-gravity’, which toured large-scale venues worldwide often under the portfolio of the British Council (Europe, Asia, U.S, South Africa). Nationally her performance work has been commissioned by institutions such as the Watershed and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Rocamora’s films have been screened at festivals and filmothèques worldwide and broadcast on NPS, Channel 4, TVC and Arte Tv. Her internationally celebrated film Horizon of exile (2007) received an IMZ Dance Screen Award, the Hague (2007) and a DCW Choreography Media Honor (for outstanding achievement), Los Angeles (2008), and has recently been published under the SED/ British Council Forward Motion DVD Collection. Horizon of exile has been exhibited as single and dual channel installation at Loop Videoart Festival ’08, Barcelona (Senda Gallery); Palazzio Strozzi, Florence; Art Forum, Berlin; Sala Parpalló, Valencia; and Pulse, Miami. A publication on the work is to appear in May 2009.

Filmography:

2009 Promise of fallen time – single channel, 18 min, Spain/ U.K

2007 Horizon of Exile – single and dual channel, 22 min, U.K

2005 Insomnia (co-director Jo Cammack) – single channel, 6 min, Channel 4, U.K

2005 Residual – dual screen installation, 10 min, Watershed Media Centre, U.K

2005 Portrait in time and gesture – dual channel installation, 6 mins, dance.tech, U.K

2002 Passage (co-director Marcus Behrens) – single channel 26 min, Arte Tv, U.K/ Germany

1991 Fragmented Transparencies – single channel, Bristol University, U.K

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PRESS ARTICLE ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL March 2009

PRESS ARTICLE LA VANGUARDIA February 2009