Tin Dirdamal Masterclass / The Lost Sound of Future

TIN DIRDAMAL MASTERCLASS
The Lost Sound of Future

A masterclass on filmmaking that seeks to find new narratives far away from the film world. Where fiction meets non-fiction, where film and non-film converge. Far away from formulas, scripts, film schools and crews. In search of a place where creation and destruction sit at the same table to eat. Using the mistake and limitations as the driving force, the not knowing as the compass. This masterclass is born from a deep love and a great aversion to cinema.

LANGUAGE
English

DURATION
4 hours

GROUP
No limit of number of participants. Filmmakers, non-filmmakers, artists, and non-artists are welcome

ABOUT TIN DIRDAMAL

Born 165 kilometers south of the US-Mexico border, self-taught filmmaker and accidental artist. He measures the success of his films by how much of himself he abandons in the process. Also self- taught in psychology and architecture. He uses mistakes and limitations as his driving force, the not knowing as his compass.

He is an advocate of plagiarism and is a great ignorant of world affairs. He believes that lies can be an instrument to approach truth. It takes him on average 5.5555 years to complete a film. He knows how to find underground water, until recently he had never read a book in his life and he regularly segment sleeps. He is convinced he can document the future and has attempted this numerous times. He is a gypsy and a nomad, he lives in places for 2 to 3 years with the understanding he will soon abandon them. He has lived for prolonged periods of time in Arizona, Bolivia, the North of India, the North of México, the North of Vietnam, the West of Turkey and currently in the North of Albania.

At 23 he grabbed a camera for the first time and made his first accidental and feature length film with the only intention of showing it to his friends and family. This film won a dozen awards in film festivals including an award at Sundance. Until now he has finished 4 feature length films and is currently working on 4 new ones. He is a loner: he directs, produces, acts, writes, does camera and sound, composes the music, edits, color corrects and does the sound design for his own films.

His films have been shown and awarded at some of the most important art venues and film festivals around the world including the Venice Biennale, Visions du Reel, IDFA, Jihlava, Punto de Vista, FICUNAM, etc. He has received grants from Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute and Rockefeller Media Artists. He has been invited to mentor, give workshops and masterclasses at UCLA, YALE, NYU, Hunter, UMASS, Union Docs (Brooklyn), DocLab (Hanoi), etc.

He uses different names, Tin Dirdamal is not his real name.