ANTONIO BUNT
Experimental Filmmaker
These are selected filmworks. For a detailed list, please refer to the bottom of this page or feel free to browse through my youtube or vimeo channels.
Filmer & Son
Stills and behind the scenes pictures
In 2013, Eve Heller came to Mexico City to teach a workshop about contact printing and experimental film on 16mm. Back then I was lost -creatively speaking- since digital did not offer me what analogue does but I was into digital.
I enrolled in this course and I renewed my vows to experimental film. From here on, I am more and more interested in film and analogue supports.
Now, this short film is the seed for a longer version.
On Notice
Sobre Aviso
HD
Director, screenplay and production: Antonio Bunt
Camera: Itzel Olguín and Diego Patiño
Assistant Director: Diego Patiño
Production Assistants: David Daniel Meléndez and Gustavo Mena
Behind the scenes: Iván Beristáin
Field Sound Recordist: Luis Vizcarra
Image & Sound Postproduction: Victor Sandoval
Country: Mexico
Year: 2014
With: Zaira Ballesteros and Antonio Bunt
A certain day. An appointment. Someone is late.
Behind the scenes photographs of On Notice by Iván Beristáin
Akinetopsia
16 mm
Director, idea, production, camera: Antonio Bunt
Production: Estudio Taller Selenium
Country: Mexico
Year: 2014
With: Antonio Bunt
This exercise is about the disease of the title. I made it on 16 mm with a pinhole instead of a lens at 8 fps. Even the title cards were made with a pinhole. I waited and waited for sunny days until finally I could shoot the film. It was shot in colour film but hand processed as black and white negative. To transfer the footage to FCP for further editing, I used the simple method of projecting on the wall and capturing video with a Canon T3i. Made in Mexico City at the Estudio Taller Selenium.
Missing Memories
16 mm/Mini DV
Director, screenplay and production: Antonio Bunt
Co-Production: Cinematográfica Films/Edwin Arévalo
Camera: Edwin Arévalo, Antonio Bunt & Octavio Soto
Image Postproduction: Andrés Villela
Sound Design: Luis Vizcarra
Country: Mexico/USA/El Salvador
Year: 2013
While having a walk through a flea market, I came across a 16 mm roll of film. To my surprise, the images could still be seen. This documentary tells what I found...
As far from Here
Mini DV
Director, screenplay, production: Antonio Bunt
Assistant Director, editing & camera: Argel Maldonado
Production Assistants & Art: Federico Arias, Hansel Cornejo, Tania Horta & Ireri Yáñez
Continuity: Karla Ezcurdia
Additional Photography: Daniela Tena
Image Postproduction: Andrés Villela
Camera Assistant, Sound & Lighting: Víctor Sandoval
With: Antonio Bunt & Diego Patiño
Country: Mexico
Year: 2011
A man's indecision to travel caused by a childhood traumatic experience.
These short videos were made during the workshop Labour in a Single Shot, taught by Harun Farocki in February 2014 during his stay in Mexico City.
These are my collaborations for the collective project.
Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann with the participants of the Mexico City Labour in a Single Shot workshop. (Goethe-Institut Mexiko, 1st. March 2014)
SELECTED FILM WORKS
2020 Les vestiges de mon enfance en 18 photogrammes Super8 experimental/found footage short film colour 3 minutes
La Tribu Montevideo, Uruguay
2018 Filmer & Son 16 mm experimental short film black & white 4 minutes
Screened and broadcasted in over 70 venues and local television stations for the Mexican Cinema celebration between the 15th August to the 19th September, 2021. During 2020 in Film Cycle Echo Park Film Centre North (Vancouver, Canada), International Silent Film Festival 5th. Anniversary (Puebla, Mexico), 2nd. Festival 1666 (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). In 2019 at the 27th Artifact Small-format Film Festival (Calgary, Canada), V Research in Arts Seminar / Universidad de Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica), ¡Allá vienen! II Mexican Contemporary Film Festival Cine Maldà (Barcelona, Spain), San Diego Underground Film Festival 2019 (San Diego, USA), S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico (A Coruña, Spain), 8th. Super 8 & 16 mm Film Showcase (San Roque, Spain), 4th International Silent Film Festival (Puebla, Mexico) Shapeshifters Cinema-Laboratorio Experimental de Cine 2019 (Oakland, USA) Estudios Churubusco Silvestre Revueltas Cinema, private screening during the opening of the Encuentro de Laboratorios Independientes de Cine Analógico on the 5th September 2018
Maya's Knife 16 mm experimental short film black& white 2 minutes
Passageway Super 8 experimental short film black & white 3 minutes
2018 Super OFF São Paulo, Brazil Official selection
2017 Akinetopsia 16 mm experimental short film black & white 1 minute
Sobre Aviso (On Notice) HD fiction short film colour 1 minute
Man Ray's Ghost Super 8 experimental short film colour/b&w 5 minutes
Studio Baxton Gallery (Brussels, Belguim, 2021), XVII CiN!CO Cinema showcase- Mexican Experimental Cinema / FM La Tribu (Buenos Aires, Argentina) on the 2nd. November
2014 Labour in a single shot (Collective) HD documentary short film colour 1 minute each
Auditorium of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC-UNAM) on the 14 May 2014 and the Goethe-Institut Mexiko on the 1st. March 2014 and at UNAM Tlatelolco University Cultural Centre from November 2016 to March 2017 during the exhibit La ciudad está allá afuera: Demolición-Ocupación-Utopía (The city is outside: Demolition-Occupation-Utopia)
2013 The End of Childhood 16 mm experimental/found footage film black & white 1minute
Estudios Churubusco Film Lab Cinema, private screening during the screenings of the Encuentro de Laboratorios Independientes de Cine Analógico on the 7th September 2018 University Cultural Centre-UNAM (José Revueltas Cinema), November 2013
Missing Memories DV/16 mm documentary short film colour 13 minutes
Universidad Insurgentes Auditorium and La Procedencia Alternative Short Film Circuit (Mexico City)
2012 Seis horas (Six hours) HD fiction short film colour 13 minutes
2011 Tan Lejos de Aquí (As Far from Here)
José Vasconcelos Library (Mexico City)
2007 Sunday in the Park Super 8 documentary short film colour 3 minutes
Co-directed with Diego Patiño
Reto Kornea Super-8 Film Festival