Present at the origin of all known life, water serves as a bridge between drifting continents, and is a central element in our planet’s equilibrium (or lack thereof). Water emerges as a lens or matter through which we can understand our place in the world — past, present and future.
Two guest curators were invited to interpret water as a material that explains our history, as well as our manifold ways of being and connecting. A programme that aim to reflect the thematic refraction of this living substanceis reflected in this programme.
From art films to archival works, Counter Flows sweeps us through ecology and economic fluxes, colonial movements and desperate flights of freedom — but also through resilience, restoration and abundance.
Curated by Almudena Escobar López and Margarida Mendes
Full programme announced in May
Almudena Escobar López
An independent curator, archivist, and researcher from Galicia, Spain, she is Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management, at the School of Image Arts of the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work focuses largely on coloniality and artistic practices that propose alternative ways of understanding territoriality. Almudena is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual and Cultural Studies program at the University of Rochester. As a guest curator, Almudena has curated and co-curated a number of film and video series which have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, Film Society of Lincoln Center, CineMigrante Argentina, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá, UnionDocs, ICDOCS, Visual Studies Workshop, Cineteca Nacional de México, among others.
Margarida Mendes
Researcher, curator and educator, she explores the overlap between systems thinking, experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensing practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action. She has been long involved in anti-extraction activism and ecopedagogy, collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities and institutions of the art world. She directed several educational and research platforms and was the guest film curator at the 11th Liverpool Biennale.
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