ATOM SAMIT

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The essential of my work is focused on finding the essential moments in everyday life. I go outside
with my video camera to find the unexpected and, at the same time, manipulate the reality. First, I
make in-camera editing, where the first shot leads to another default but unexpected. After, in editing
room can all have a new meaning. Therefore, the purpose of the process is to make the everyday life
an art object that speaks for itself.
The historic memory, how the people tell the History and focus their perception of the world looking
through the past the present. The memory like a ghost that inhabit our lives but we cant or dont want
to see. My last experimental documentaries had the central point of the narration in this, and how
take form visually this idea. Im worried about how the concepts needs to take the ideal audiovisual
form for express their meaning. Every movie is different and needs it own style.
Work with the landscape, the objects in it, their history, and the forms it can appear are my principal
audiovisual style. I treat the landscape like the principal character of my films. The urban and na-
tural landscape, and their combination, can be expressed by itself. At that point, my work demand
the attention and the patience of the public, because is about time. And time needs time to develop.
Search the essential moments in everyday life, or, talk about the historic memory is question of time,
and the landscape is the sign of the time.
Play with the landscape forms and the essential moments in the reality develops other kind of works
focused in the abstraction of the image through shapes, colors, rhythms, and sounds turning it into a
sensory experience so that the image is purely plastic.
My approach to the contemporary art, and the meeting with artists, has led me to create a line of
work about the art spaces and representations. My first documentary, (De)constructing the space
(2011) deepens in how change a installation space. My last documentary, glogau AIR (2014), goes
beyond and combines the GlogauAIR residence as a life space with the artists development. In
future projects, my lines of work will be mixed and the History will take part of the artist life and their
space of work and exhibition.
glogau AIR
Experimental documentary
commissioned by the City of Castellon
Link: https://vimeo.com/95459087
Password: glogauair
HDV, Color, 26
2014
GlogauAIR is a residence for artists, located in the
district of Kreuzberg, Berlin. During the months I
spent there I tried to collect all the experiences that
artists offered to me. The result was hours of recor-
ding that are described in the documentary. We can
breath the air from GlogauAIR.
The Wind Cut A Neck
Documentary
commissioned by the City of Castellon
Link: https://vimeo.com/95498268
HDV, Color, 26
2014
The Wind Cut A Neck is the name of the showca-
ses installation for GlogauAIR made it by the South
Korean artist Jiminy.
The Documentary follows the creative process of
this piece with all the doubts, decisions, failures, si-
lences, thoughts... A work process in 48 hours.
Disappear
Fantasy/sci-fi/thriller
Own production
Link: http://www.jamesonnotodofilmfest.com/cortos.html?id=cw52d54798c92fa
HDV, B/W, 330
2014
After her roommate and platonic lover abandoned
him, he feels an empty inside. The emptiwness will
start to manifest physically. He lost arms, voice,
legs...
Prisoner in his room, nobody can help him. Finally
hell disappear.
Sad Song
Scream of Stone About Europes Decline
Experimental documentary
Own production
Link: https://vimeo.com/82094616
HDV, B/W, 66
2013
The history of Europe represented by the statues
that inhabit the European capital of Berlin. Today
the visitors and citizens of the city take pictures
and pass in front of these monuments that tell the
birth of the European continent. The process of
how this great empire that dominated the world to-
day is sunken in the contemporary decadence.
Monuments on the moon
Experimental documentary
produced by Escuela de Cine de Barcelona (ECIB)
Link: https://vimeo.com/89284729
Password: monumentosenlaluna
HDV, Color & B/W, 25
2013
Vallcarca (Sitges) was built in 1903 to house wor-
kers of concrete factory MC Butsems and Fradera.
In the 50s and 60s the company grew, and with it
the colony, which grew into a town of five thousand
inhabitants. The political and economic changes of
the 70s led to the need for expansion of the con-
crete factory and the destruction of that village. To-
day, the only remaining street in Vallcarca is popu-
lated by the ghosts of the past and his experiences
are only in the memory of those who inhabited the
place.
Turnedo
Experimental documentary
Own production
Link: https://vimeo.com/51805423
HDV, Color, 15
2013
Spring is coming. The sky threatens storm. In the
beaches from Barcelona the people continues with
the routine.
The boats leave the port, the airplanes flies over the
buildings, the fishermen wait, the tourists doesnt
are afraid and continue looking the city landscape.
MMOONNTTJUICJUIC
Experimental documentary
Own production
Link: https://vimeo.com/62851114
HDV, Color & B/W, 8
2013
Montjuic (Barcelona) serves as a stage to speak
of repetition, of emptiness, of the daily routine. The
site, designed as a drop of elements that are cons-
tantly repeated with slight variations, is home to
thousands of daily visitors. Only some go far away
and find those citizens that in weekends go up to
the mountaintop to play music or do sport...
Docudrama
Own production
Selected for Shortlatino Section in ALCINE
Link: https://vimeo.com/70793518
HDV, B/W, 7
2012
The days that have passed...
will not return
Its summer. The routine is done with the days of
Amparo and Adrian. She is an old woman who
likes to enjoy the day. He is a young man who
spends the day watching the TV. Who is really
old? What does being old? Nothing ages more to
think that we get older.
Experimental documentary
produced by Jaume I University (UJI)
Link: https://vimeo.com/71824328
HDV, Color & B/W, 7
2011
(De)constructing the Space
The Space doesnt exist... it is constructed with
each new installation. The Space is empty... comes
alive with each new work. The Space is unique...
and different with each new creation. The docu-
mentary follows the installation process at the Art
Contemporany Space in Castellon (Spain).
Atom Samit [Adrian Tomas Samit] (b. 1989)
atomsamit.tumblr.com
atomsamit@gmail.com
Tel. +34 687 522 723
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adrian-tomas-samit/7a/80b/bb4
EDUCATION
2013 Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Masters degree Contemporany Film and Audiovisual
Studies (1 year study), Barcelona, Spain.
2012-2013, Barcelona Film School (ECIB), International Masters degree in Film Documen-
tary (1 year study), Barcelona, Spain.
2007-2011 Jaume I University, Masters Degree in Audiovisual Communication
(5 years studies), Castellon, Spain.
EXPERIENCE
2014 Assistant Director in Koma (Cyril Haas, 2014)
2012 Production assistant in Fallas 37. El arte en guerra (Oscar Martin, 2013)
2012 yet Writer in film and art section, nomepierdoniuna.net
2012 yet Writer and film critic, monemonkey.com
2012 2013 Writer and evaluator, Archivos de la Filmoteca.
2012 yet Writer collaborator, Shangrila Textos en red.
2012 yet Creator and content manager, Anuncios para coches. Blog de cine.
2007 yet Independent Filmmaker.
AWARD & RESIDENCY
2013 2014 Artist-in-residence, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany.
2013 Documentary film project selected for the Barcelona Film School (ECIB)
2012 Best Unpublished Essay Prize, Quaderni del CSCI magazine, Barcelona Spain.
2012 Docudrama The days that have passed... will not return selected for Shortlatino
Section in ALCINE Alcala de Henares.
FILMS
2014 glogau AIR, experimental documentary film commissioned by the City of Castellon.
2014 Disappear, fantasy/sci-fi/thriller short film, own production.
2013 Sad Song. Scream of Stone About Europes Decline, experimental documentary film,
own production.
2013 Monuments on the moon, experimental documentary, ECIB.
2012 The days that have passed...will not return, short docudrama, own production.
2011 (De)constructing the Space, short experimental documentary, commissioned by the
Jaume I University.
EXHIBITION
Solo Exhibition
2014 Disappear Here, Centro Municipal de Cultura (Castellon, Spain)
2013 Monuments on the moon, Cines Prado (Sitges, Spain)
PUBLICATION
Solo Publication
2014 2015 (in edition process) Guide to view and analyze: There Will Be Blood (Paul Tho-
mas Anderson, 2007), Nau Llibres. (Book)
2014 More wood. The Average Shot Length as a new tool of film analysis, Knowledge to
share. Analysis of micro-stories 3: Minimum Narratives in audiovisual speech. (Chapter book)
2013 Me and the World. Making contact with a nonfiction contemporary film, First Internatio-
nal Conference about Actual Narrative. The Hispanic Auto-fiction in the XXI Century. (Confe-
rence)
2013 Delving into the mists of Kithira. Drifts about the disenchantment of Greek cinema in the
XXI century, Shangrila Textos Aparte Magazine. (Essay)
2012 Its always good time to do a comedy! About representation (of policy) in Il Caimano
and Il Divo. Quaderni del CSCI. (Essay)
Collaborative Exhibition
2014 Disappear Here, MARTE, Feria de Arte Contemporaneo de Castellon, Palau
de la Festa (Castellon, Spain)
2014 Monuments on the moon. MECAL, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de
Barcelona - CCCB (Barcelona, Spain)
2014 Disappear Here. Open Studios - GlogauAIR Artist-In-Residence Program
(Berlin, Germany)
2013 Monuments on the moon, Fundacio SGAE Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
Collaborative Publication
2014 Light prisons. Architecture in Terrence Malick and The Tree of Life (2011),
LAtalante-Studies Film Magazine. (Essay)
2013 Management of the point of view in videogame cutscenes, Knowledge to
share. Analysis of micro-stories 3: Minimum Narratives in audiovisual speech.
(Chapter book)
2013 Three Neoclassicisms. Exploring the possibilitties of a comparative Average
Shot Length trough Clint Eastwood, Brian De Palma and Woody Allen, Icono 14.
Atom Samit Cronista Revest, 26 12005 Castellon (Spain) +34 687 522 723 atomsamit@gmail.com atomsamit.tumblr.com