FÉLIX PÉREZ-HITA

Born in Barcelona (Spain), 1967
Lives & works in Barcelona (Spain)
Very active in: 90s, 2000s, Current decade


More links:
www.neokinok.tv

He started composing and recording music for short films. At the same time he filmed his first super 8 films and experimental videos.

From 1997 to 2000, writes and directs a series of documentaries on art and artists broadcasted by Barcelona tv.

2001-2004
Co-writer (with Andrés Hispano) and editor of Boing Boing Buddha (PostTelevison Laboratory, more than 70 chapters broadcasted, Barcelona TV).

Co-writer and Co-director (with Arturo Bastón and Kikol Grau) of the urderground video show Gabinete de Crisis ("A tv program you wont see on tv"), which is now at its 6th chapter, presented at the CASM (Centre d?Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona, oct 2007), performed live and streamed via horitzó.tv.

Gabinete de crisis has been shown in national and international video festivals and academic tv seminars all around Spain. Gabinete de Crisis 4 won the fisrt prize at the first Animalario.tv Festival (2006).

Since 2005, Pérez-Hita is also a member of the the experimental tv project, Neokinok.tv (founded by Daniel Miracle), working as producer of experimental tv shows, performer and videoartist.

2006. "Baixa Fidelitat" (Lo- Fi) co-written and co-directed with Andrés Hispano. A series of experimental tv programs about the lies and topics thrown by the mass-media. Showing interest on found footage, industrial films, home movies, etc.

His videos have been shown or broadcasted at:
Caixafórum ("El mundo inmediato", with Andrés Hispano), Primavera Fotográfica, Fundació Tàpies (Barcelona), LOOP (International Fair of Vídeo-Art Galleries, Barcelona), Festival de Cine Fantástico de Sitges (Barcelona), La Capella (Horitzó.tv, Barcelona), Galería Carmen Lacalle (Madrid), Casa Encendida (Madrid), Metrópolis (TVE 2, Madrid), Zemos98 (Sevilla), Festival Citemor (Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal), Docúpolis, OVNI (Observatori de video no identificat), CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), 143 Delicias, among others.

He has published essays and articles about video, films and art in:
Archipiélago. Cuadernos de crítica de la cultura, "Amínima" revista de arte y nuevas tecnologías, "Manía" (Dept. de Estética, Historia y Filosofía de la Cultura, Fac. de Filosofía, Un. de Barcelona), "Esborrany. Revista de crítica cultural", and "Cultura/s" (La Vanguardia), among others.