Benjamin Crotty

– Casa Wabi 2019

Community Project

IN-PHONE EDITING – Secundaria COINPA, Puerto Escondido
By working with 14 students of first grade from COINPA High School in Puerto Escondido, the project’s objective were to improve the participants basic shooting techniques: framing, camera movement, voice-over, storyboard creation, etc; all this with the purpose that they can make short films, shouted in a single shot from their cell phone.
In groups of two or three, the students recreated small stories that they previously wrote together, planned with drawings and rehearsed to be able to film them. The last session of the project was held at the Casa Wabi facilities, in order to project the final works in the home cinema room.
“I’ve learned that this work is not easy, that it takes a lot of time and dedication, I also learned how to make better videos with my cell phone, I liked that we made an example at the beginning so we could better understand how it was done and what they let us do. our own history. “ Dayan Israel Gómez Vásquez (12 years old)

Log-Piece

Untitled
2019
Carta

USA

Washington, 1979

Born in Spokane, Washington, Benjamin studied painting at Yale University (BA 2002) before moving to France the following year. He earned a second degree in art history and archaeology at Lille 3 and a master at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, before completing the post-diploma film and video program at Le Fresnoy – Studio National (2006-2008).
He went on to make several short films, including collaborations with Gabriel Abrantes and Bertrand Dezoteux, that screened in numerous festivals such as Locarno, Rotterdam, TIFF and NYFF, and in institutions including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, the Palais de Tokyo and Tate Modern.
Benjamin’s first feature film, Fort Buchanan, had its world premiere at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival and its US premiere at the MoMA/Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films in March 2015. It received commercial distribution by Norte in French cinemas, US distribution by Grasshopper and is part of the MoMA film collection.
His most recent short The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin premiered at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival where it won the Fundación Casa Wabi – Mantarraya Award and has gone on to screen at the NYFF, BFI Locarno Film Festival and the Viennale, among others.
He is currently developing a French-language feature film adaptation of the Joshua Cohen short story Emission. He lives and works in Paris.
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