SOIL Gallery Presents: Latin American Land/Escapes Part 2 [In-Person Only]
Wed Aug 06:
Suggested Donation, minimum $0
Diana Cantarey, Tania Ximena
Mexico
2021, 2024
1h 52m
Visiting Artist
Artist in attendance!
About
(Diana Cantarey, Tania Ximena, 2021 & 2024, Mexico, 112 min, in Spanish with English subtitles)
SP: Como parte del programa extendido de Latin American Land/Escapes en SOIL Artist-Run Gallery*, se presentan una serie de corto y largometrajes situados en torno a distintas aproximaciones con las vivencias del habitar el territorio en latinoamérica, desde la cruda realidad del extractivismo, hasta ensoñaciones poéticas sobre lo que alguna vez llamamos hogar.
EN: As part of the extended programming of Latin American Land/Escape at SOIL Artist-Run Gallery*, a series of short and feature films are presented around different approaches with the experiences of living in the territory of Latin America, from the harsh reality of extraction, to poetic reveries about what we once call home
Films in this program include:
POZO (2024, dir. Diana Cantarey, 40min 20sec)
“Crude secrets about the Cantarell oil field, Mexico’s most prolific offshore oil reserve, are portrayed in reverse in the visionary documentary Pozo. The mysteries of the bastard family of the fisherman who discovered the country’s greatest energy treasure are accompanied in chorus by the intrigues, apparitions and petrosexoracial traumas of the inhabitants of Ciudad del Carmen, an island radically transformed by the voracious hydrocarbon industry. The chants of the gods of darkness, of crude oil and of the end of time, accompany and guide this return to the eternal source of emptiness.
This invocation does not count the facts from the end to the beginning, but undoes them, diminishes them, de-refines them, decreases them, deconsumes them, de-extinguishes them. ”
POBO ‘TZU’ (2021, dir. Tania Ximena, 1hour 12min)
“In 1982, the Chichonal volcano, located in the state of Chiapas, erupted. It buried the surrounding communities, including the Esquipulas Guayabal ejido. Guided by the Zoque worldview, Tania Ximena created the documentary “”Pobo ‘Tzu’ – White Night,”” which dreamily records the work of the ejidatarios (communal landowners), who, three decades after the eruption, decided to unearth their ancient village.”
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This programming is made possible by the generous support of the Consulate General of Mexico