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CGI and Stone Short Film Takes You Inside an Artist's 'Head'

'Once Upon an Artist' finds Rubén Fuentes Fuertes sending a sculpture into the stratosphere.
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A beautifully surreal new profile series uses breathtaking visual effects to portray the physical and mental labors of the working creator. In the first chapter of Once Upon An Artist, "Head," filmmakers Marc Guardiola and Pepe Ábalos capture the process of Spanish sculptor Rubén Fuentes Fuertes as he builds Head, a five-foot-tall work of compact quartz.

Through elegant camera work and use of blockbuster-grade special effects, Guardiola and Abalos reconstruct what they see as a “visual metaphor”: an imaginative digital projection of the artist’s philosophical approach. Fuertes remarks, “For me, sculpture today is a way of communicating, a passion, and my way of life.”

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In one of these poetic visual illusions, Fuentes is pictured standing on a seaside cliff, looking on at a digitally rendered image of his developing sculpture. Head has been digitally pieced together by rocks and boulders from the nearby sea wall and floats in front of the artist in midair. The filmmakers write, “We use the tool of visual metaphor to redraw what our artists tell about their work. All during their work’s process.” Some things just can’t be expressed with words, though, so check out Once Upon An Artist: Chapter 1, below:

ONCE UPON AN ARTIST. Chapter 1: HEAD from Marc Guardiola [ La Mafia ] on Vimeo.

Check out more of Fuertes’ abstract sculptures on his website, here. Head over to the filmmakers’ vimeo page to keep an eye on upcoming chapters in the Once Upon An Artist series, here.

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