MONOCHROME AV / Music by Oscar Mulero / Visuals by Javier Bejarano y Nazare Soares

Monochrome ​is an audiovisual experience created for Oscar Mulero’s album ​Perfect Peace,​ the cinematic concept was created in 2016 from a collaboration between artists Javier Bejarano and Nazare Soares. Most of the visual material was filmed same year in England, Norway, and Spain; using mainly black and white 16mm and 8mm footage digitalized and mixed with high-quality video, also including material from own artists archives. The​ ​visual composition last 72 minutes and is live performed by Javier Bejarano. Monochrome​ is inspired by a photographic series shot some years earlier by the visual artist in London’s Highgate cemetery, to which Nazare Soares has added animistic elements. Within this merged contemplation, the material opens up for entering into a journey where reality fades into dreamlike and imaginary realms. The cinematic outcome is an exploration into a dialogue created when juxtapositioning still and moving images, and their relationship to history as well as the construct of memory from th