Muriel Paraboni

Concept Artist, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Videographer, Film Festival Director and Distributor

Milano, Italy

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About Muriel

Muriel Paraboni is a multimedia artist. Graduated in visual arts and cinema, with a master's degree in the field of Art and Technology, his production is marked by hybridism and language experimentation, involving elements of narrative, poetry and abstraction with existential themes and relations with the history of art and philosophy. With a strong visual emphasis, his work explores time, space and meaning in a variety of supports, such as painting, object, photography, installation, video and cinema, which are often combined in environmental and sensory proposals. He participated in more than 60 group shows in various parts of the world since 2010. His films and videos have been presented at festivals, museums and art galleries in more than 20 countries, such as the United States , England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Mexico and Argentina, receiving several awards.

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Sisyphus Works (2020)
Film (short) by Véspera Visual Arts Producer, Screenwritter, Director, Art Director, Editor, Performer Sisyphus pushes a large cube down the road, for no apparent reason. Among woods, clearings and beautiful landscapes, he remains adamant in his task. Inspired by the Greek myth of Sisyphus and the existentialist metaphor of Albert Camus, the film starts from an exhaustive performance that explores repetition, absurdity and monotony of human condition as potential drivers of freedom and creation.
Passage (2019)
Film (short) by Véspera Visual Arts Producer, Screenwritter, Director, Editor A fisherman throws himself into unknown waters, where fish have long gone, wrapped in silent mystery. In this journey without return the landscape sometimes assumes the role of the other and the other soon reveals the reverse or a mirror of him self in the ineluctable solitude of the horizon.
The Factory (2018)
Film (short) by Véspera Visual Arts Director, Producer, Editor Nothing but the top of a tree and the chimney of a factory. Gray clouds blend with the smoke that flows without stopping. This is the start and also the end point for this visual essay, which explores the potentialities of glitch and digital imagery to address the dichotomies between aesthetics and politics, abstraction and figuration, contemplation and thought. The Factory is an experimental minimalist piece that can best be defined by the a notion rescued at the basis of John Cage´s work: from looking repeatedly at the same object, its depth is revealed. In fact, this notion is related to a Zen proverb that says that "in the beginning mountains are mountains and the rivers are rivers, in the middle mountains are no longer mountains nor rivers are rivers, but in the end mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers again", describing the paths our perceptions take in the search for apprehend the essential reality of phenomena.
Mindscapes (2017)
Film (short) by Véspera Visual Arts Director, Producer, Editor A fish swims in deep waters, exploring an unknown territory. The boundaries seem indefinite, limited just by darkness. Such is the mind, such is the abstract space of the senses and perceptions, where every emotion and thought begins to shape the whole world.
Eventide (2016)
Film (short) by Véspera Visual Arts Producer, Screenwritter, Director, Art Director, Editor A man and a woman relive moments of their lives transfigured on the landscapeof a beach. Past, present and future merge in the cadence of the waters, which come and go revolving memories and old silences. So the characters go through a sort of trail of desire, leading the edge of the abyss of themselves, where all days born and die, horizon to all passes, all eventides. Eventide is an arthouse short, product of extensive experimentation with languages of film and visual arts, involving design procedures, painting and video-projection. The project took 5 years to complete and it was almost handmade, despite the technology involved. The film was released in 2016, being selected and awarded in several international festivals.

Awards

Nominee – Best Screenplay – ALTFF Alternative Film Festival – Toronto, Canada
(2019)
Semi-Finalist – Best Experimental Film – New Harvest Film Festival – Moscow, Russia
(2019)
Finalist – Best Experimental Film – Lisbon Film RendezVous – Lisbon, Portugcal
(2019)
Best Experimental Film – Largo Film Awards – Geneva, Switzerland
(2018)
Nominee – Sound Design – The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image – New York, USA
(2018)
Nominee – Best Director, Cinematographer, Editor and Score – 17th Bucharest Shortcut – Bucharest, Ro
(2018)
Best Experimental – 17th Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest – Bucharest, Romania
(2018)
Excellence Award – Experimental Film – The IndieFEST Film Awards – San Diego, USA
(2018)
Best Short Film and Sound Design – Five Continents Film Festival – Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
(2018)
Runner-Up – Best Film – 17th Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest – Bucharest, Romania
(2017)
Best Short and Nominee Cinematography and Sound – The Montly Film Festival – Glasgow, England
(2017)
Nominee – Best Short Film – Short to the Point International Film Festival – Bucharest, Romania
(2017)
Runner-Up – Best Original Film and Motion Picture – Bucharest Film Awards – Bucharest, Romania
(2017)
Honorable Mention – Experimental Forum Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA
(2016)
Special Jury Prize – 12th Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival – Chicago, USA
(2016)
Nominee – Feature Film Original Screenplay Competition – Havana Film Festival – Havana, Cuba
(2006)
Best Actor and Best Short 16mm – APTC Film Festival – Porto Alegre, Brazil
(2004)
Winner – Santander Development Feature Project Fund – Porto Alegre, Brazil
(2003)
Best Director, Film, Editing, Photography and Screenplay – Recife Film Festival – Recife, Brazil
(2002)
Finalist and Honorable Mention: Fiction Screenplay – Lead Your Talent – USA Channel – Rio de Janeiro
(1996)