Refugios (Refuges) is the first fiction feature from the director Alejandro Cortés. A fragmented story in which the main characters’ past tangles with the present, confronting their present mindset and complicating their future. The premiere took place in the official section of the All Lights India International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the best Director’s Debut award. It is been selected since in other festivals in the USA, Spain, India, Argentina, Germany and…
In the spring of 2013 the third shooting phase from the auteur film Refuges, directed by Alejandro Cortés, joined Ddpendientes in the chaotic city of Buenos Aires. The chance was productive enough and also presented the opportunity to do other parallel collaborations. In this period the artist Vanessa Alami is set in Buenos Aires, the photography collective Maispira gets started. This professional visual platform had other photography and visual artists involved besides Vanessa, like Alejandra León,…
A mi Musa (to my Muse) is a monograph art project from the artist Viviana Gaviria, Buenos Aires, who based her work in the artistic trajectory of Ddpendientes. The project took a very dynamic shape where a poem was written at the end. The first line was launched by Susana and the first art director selected who would represent it in a photoshoot taken by Vanessa. That first images would inspire Susana to write the next verses,…
Axier y su mama Isabel se visten muy elegantes para cenar juntos cada noche. En la mesa siempre hay tres platos servidos. El papá de Axier lleva 7 años sin aparecer, pero Isabel nunca pierde la esperanza.. Axier es el primer cortometraje dirigido por Vanessa Alami en 2012, coodirigido con Alejandro Cortés en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Durante ese periodo Vanessa inicia su futura carrera como Directora Fotografía en Cine, sin embargo en esta…
Hay Tor- tor- Tortilla (How to cook society and make it submissive) is a colour photography and text exhibition that represents a parody from the society cupola and their implicit strategies to manipulate people. The images follow the shape of a cooking recipe, done in toilets. What could be cocked in a toilet… ? This piece is a work from Ddpendientes, Vanessa Alami as photographer and VisualSusana art director and writer, with the special collaboration…
Born in the heart of the emblematic city of Barcelona, the artistic duo compromised of Vanessa Alami and VisualSusana decided to decorate the public and alternative spaces with their exhibitions and cultural events. Their activity started out based mainly in the creation of pieces that combined photography and poetry, as well as the creation of an exclusive reality for the taking of a shot. Ddpendientes debut with Kiss me Corasón (Kiss Me my Heart), which…