GILLES
ANIORTE-
TOMASSIAN
PRODUCER, RACONTEUR, GETAWAY CAR DRIVER
Pro. Double clickpro me.
Producer, Road Manager, Raconteur, Getaway Driver
INFO
I know how to
Write a short story
Write a long story with different chapters and a few sex scenes
Take the train by myself
Determine goals and the means to reach them (pack my bags under the weight limit)
Learn languages and use them
Integrate into a team, preferently as the boss and lead it!
Promote
Prospect
Prosit
Procrastinate
Produce
Buy produce
By pass
By stand
Bilingual
Trilingual
Try new things
Engage into a conversation, keep a conversation going, force into a conversation
Organize, project, improvise, lie
Drive and pilot
Coordinate an action and my clothes
Act according to a given context
Follow music without sheets
Follow you with music under your sheets
Draw obscene scenes in the back of your sheets
Understand instructions and follow them or go astray
Kiss
Dress
Undress
Drink without being drunk (or look like it)
Drink and drive
Drive and shoot
Drink and get discreetly sick
Swim
Run
Dream
Cook crepes
Walk on eggshells
Measure risks and consequences
Measure water for rice
Measure the unbearable lightness of being
Shut up (not that easy)
Turn adversity into knowledge and answer politely on the phone
Turn friendship into hardship and answer the phone aggressively
Jump into my underwear
Jump from a running train into the night (rhetorically)
Divorce
Talk in public
Lace my shoes
Sing a song
Shine my boots
Create residuals and make them circulate through the usual channels
Make a carrot juice with apple and limes
Swim in troubled waters and surf the web without drowning
Make spelling mistakes
Correct them
Cook pasta
Adapt to adversity
Adlib
Advil
Advice
Administrate
Adjudicate
Create adverse conditions
Travel without paying my fares (1984-1989)
Organize and repeat myself
Say it again
And again
And again
Read in between lines
Make stupid lists
Make grocery lists
Make gross statements then enlist
Look for work praying not to find some
Understand the religious phenomenon and respect it faking disrespect
Make complex statements that doesn’t mean a thing but swing
Be lazy enough to live longer
Memorize faces, names and data (less and less as time goes by)
Play an instrument
Play with myself
Play Russian roulette with water guns
Survive my exes and adversity
Be constant, hard headed, optimistic, optometric, optional
Make Turkish coffee
Look like I listen to you while my mind ramble elsewhere
Founding member and board of directors
Raconteur, Get Away Driver, Sous Chef
Papers originally published in Humanidades, Journal of the National Institute of Anthropology (UNAM, Mexico City) between 1997 and 1999
https://independent.academia.edu/GillesAniorte
Column published in elsoberano.mx
http://elsoberano.mx/opinion/la-olla-infinita/
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Portfolio
https://soundcloud.com/gilles-aniorte
http://www.youtube.com/user/gillesaniorte
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xte0za
Grants
City of Chicago DCASE - Individual Artist Program 2014 Grantee (Chicago IL USA)
US-Mexico Fund for the Arts - Audio/Visual Category Grantee 1999 (Fidemex-USA, Mexico City)
National Fund for the Arts - Audio/Visual Category Grantee 1998 (FONCA, Mexico City)