Toni Serra has explored through his videos different visions, in a no man's land between experimental essay and poetry, with a constant presence of the notion of transit and the realities of the dream. The progressive realization that criticism has to be a means that helps to illuminate and know new worlds, leads him to reflect and experiment on the relationship of video with the visionary, with the inner experience and visions that transit between worlds, spaces and times, between the real and the unreal, dream and wakefulness, poetry and prophecy ... as a journey that not only crosses but also erases these limits and boundaries.
 
In this screening we will watch the following videos: 

Anit Dikr  2005_7:20 min 

Al Barzaj  2010_14 min 

Trance with the Green Man  2015_7 min 

Sol de mitjanit  2016_11 min 

Siete contemplaciones  2016_10 min 

En el camí de les abelles  2018_47 min [fragment 3:26 min] 

Links of interest: 

www.al-barzaj.org 
http://www.desorg.org 

Toni Serra *) Abu Ali / Entremons (Anit Dikr  - Al Barzaj  - Trance with the Green Man  - Sol de mitjanit - Siete contemplaciones - En el camí de les abelles) 

Collaboration: OVNI (Observatori de vídeo no identificat) 

Toni Serra *) Abu Ali (Manresa, 1960 – Barcelona, 2019). 
Through his videos he has explored different visions, in a no man's land between experimental essay and poetry, with a constant presence of the notion of transit and the realities of the dream. In his first works, in Barcelona, New York and Tangier, he questioned himself about beauty, the mystery of the ephemeral and the marginal. In 1994, he began the video series TV Code, a personal immersion in the critique of the mechanisms of alienation and the media, trying to parody their spectacular seduction and deconstruct their hypnotic capacity to create social models and identity stereotypes. 
 
The progressive realization that criticism has to be a means that helps to illuminate and know new worlds, leads him to reflect and experiment on the relationship of video with the visionary, with the inner experience and visions that travel between worlds, spaces and times, between the real and the unreal, dream and wakefulness, poetry and prophecy ... as a journey that not only crosses, but also erases these limits and boundaries.  
 
Co-director of OVNI [observatori de video no identificat]. He won the Nam June Paik Video Award for Istishara Archives and the City of Barcelona Award for the installation Fes Ciutat Interior. He worked on other projects such as Ru'a [visions] or Arxius Babilonia.