FRANK LAHERA O ́CALLAGHAN

(Cuba)

FRANK LAHERA O ́CALLAGHAN - He was born in Santiago de Cuba and currently resides in Havana. Since he was a child, he has been interested in drawing, winning some competitions. While studying his bachelor's degree at Universidad de Oriente, he began to study film and photography on his own, alternating between these visual manifestations. Sometime later he graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Audio-visual Communication Media with a degree in Direction.

He has more than 35 exhibitions, including collective and personal, national, and international, where he has obtained recognition in various corners of the world. In his filmography there are more than 35 short films, including fiction, documentaries, and experimental films, which have been shown in several festivals, including 30 Instant Video, in France, the III Sarna Festival of Experimental and Emerging Arts, in Chile, and the II Festival Eneagrama International Experimental Cinema, from Argentina. His works have been presented at international visual arts events, meetings and biennials, including the II Faenza International Video Art Exhibition in Colombia, Loading Fest in Portugal, II International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South BIENALSUR, ARCOMadrid 2016, PhotoEspaña 2020, GetxoPhoto 2019 and 2020, among others. He has exhibited collectively in several countries such as Spain, Portugal, France, Argentina, USA, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Nepal, etc., in different visual manifestations. His works have been published in different magazines, including: 100 Grados (Spain), Flotante Mag (Mexico), Astilla en el Ojo (Colombia) and Ephemera 2.0 (USA).

It has won awards such as 3rd Place International Self-Taught Photography Festival FOTOFEST, Honorable Mention Blipoint 2019, Grand Prize for Photography OroImagen 2016, Best Video Art for the First Time 2015 and Grand Prize Salón Santiago Visual Arts Experimentation SAVE 2018.

Currently he is also experimenting with graphic design, performance, video art in several of its subgenres, installation, art-object, live cinema, living arts, among others. 

12-1S  MENSAJE 2150  -  Frank Lahore O ́Callaghan  1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - V Edition 2023 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Frank Lahera O ́Callaghan Direted and Visuals - script, production, editing, camera, photography

Frank Lahera O ́Callaghan Performance

SYNOPSIS:

MENSAJE 2150: From the not-so-distant Future (2150), warnings are given of dire human consequences derived from what is now the Present. A message, a file, a voice, an indefinite presence disrupted by the non-existence of an I/You/Us, where a plea is made to be awake and face the coming times towards the necessary evolution in a more coherent way.