Carlos Casas' Avalanche

Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 7:30PM
Carlos Casas' Avalanche
(featuring Neil Leonard and students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute)
With special surprise guest
Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free

Avalanche is an audiovisual performance merging landscape, soundscape, and contemporary music. Introducing Hichigh, one of the world’s highest inhabited villages, located in the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan also known as the roof of the world. Avalanche is also an encounter with the archaic, a dialog with the overlaying of traditions and rituals within the periphery of our modern world.

For this occasion Avalanche features the collaboration with the The Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute; Sakura Tsuruta, Blake Adelman, Peder Barratt-Due, Ian Duclos, Landy Gao, Lee Gilboa, Jonathan Koh, Nikhil Singh, and Neil Leonard its director.

Carlos Casas (Barcelona 1974) Filmmaker and visual artist, his work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. His last three films have been awarded in festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City and some of his video works have been presented in collective and personal exhibitions.In 2001 he started a trilogy of work dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet, Patagonia, Aral sea, and Siberia. In 2009 he began his ongoing project Avalanche about one of the worlds highest inhabitated villages. He is currently working on a film about a cemetery of elephants on the borders between India and Nepal. http://www.carloscasas.net/

Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free