{"id":19184,"date":"2015-03-10T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=19184"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:32:01","slug":"hothouse10-benjamin-mugica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/hothouse10-benjamin-mugica\/","title":{"rendered":"NFB Hothouse 10: \u2018End of Message\u2019 (Benjam\u00edn Mugica)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BenjaminMugica_cropped\"Having studied Visual Arts at the Academia de Artes Visuales in Mexico City, Benjam\u00edn Mugica’s first creative ventures consisted largely of\u00a0 drawings, paintings and sculptures. He has since gravitated toward animation due to its value as “a platform for all the conceptual and tangible applications of time” in cinematic form. Before getting involved in the NFB<\/a>‘s Hothouse<\/a> apprenticeship scheme (in association with the Mexican Film Institute) he had previously directed the experimental animated short films <\/em>Error en Uso (2011) and <\/em>Sonidos Movimiento (2011). With <\/em>End of Message, his contribution to the tenth edition of Hothouse, Benjam\u00edn has recontextualised the found sound of missed voicemails in an animated film that comments on the fragmentary nature of communication.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I study visual arts, but the cinema has always been very important to me. As a visual artist I try to use anything that works; my first works used the most readily available materials, but I\u2019m learning more about software programs and other techniques as I go along.
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