A Mirror of the Cosmos, Isabelle Carbonell, 2022
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Weaving spaces of transit, exchange and ritual, bodies of water conceal gestures of domination and fugitivity, while holding intergenerational memories. With a selection of works of non-fiction, fiction and artist films, this programme highlights personal filmmaking practices, exploring watery spaces where rituals of belonging and ancestry take place. Bodies and language merge in acts of blessing, purification, fugitivity and celebration, counterpointing modes of insurgent and resilient living with more reciprocal forms of togetherness.
These visionary fictions unearth histories of concealment and occupation, notably those of extractive erasure in Latin America and the Pacific, contrasting the overexposure of images with the erosion of political systems.
The thematic cycle Counter-Flows reflects on how we can move from these images and stories, towards more prosperous imaginations and futures.
Curated by Almudena Escobar López and Margarida Mendes
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.
Full programme
The Island of St. Matthews, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2013
Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2014
Altépetl, Colectivo los Ingrávidos, 2013
Aggregate States of Matters, Rosa Barba, 2019
Aequador, Laura Huertas Millán, 2012
Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2022
Deep Sleep, Basma al-Sharif, 2014
Tierras del Mar, Azucena Losada, 2019
Vers les colonies, Miryam Charles, 2016
American Hunger, Ephraim Asili, 2013
As If Sand Were Stone…, Ben Mendelsohn, 2019
Dengung Hyena, Taloi Havini, 2019
Europium, Lisa Rave, 2014
.TV, G. Anthony Svatek, 2017
Atlantique, Mati Diop, 2019
Sunflflower Siege Engine, Sky Hopinka, 2022
The Mississipi Multiverse, Isabelle Carbonell, 2020
Foreign in a Domestic Sense, Sofía Gallisá Muriente e Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, 2021
A Mirror of the Cosmos, Isabelle Carbonell, 2022
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