SOIL Gallery Presents: Latin American Land/Escapes Part 1 [In-Person Only]
Wed Jul 23:
Suggested Donation, minimum $0
Francisco Burneo, Jun Tiburcio, Sébastien Dosantos Capoueet, Elena Pardo, Beatriz Millón
Ecuador, Brussels, Mexico, Chile, Spain
2020-2025
2h 4m
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(Francisco Burneo, Jun Tiburcio, Sébastien Dosantos Capoueet, Elena Pardo, Beatriz Millón, 2020-2025, Ecuador, Brussels, Mexico, Chile, Spain, 124 min, in Totonaco and Spanish with English and Spanish 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:
BOSQUES COMPARTIDOS (2020-2024, dir. Francisco Burneo, 1min 13sec)
The Cuyabeno Wildlife Production Reserve was visited by artist Francisco Burneo in 2022, where he filmed the edited material with a Super8 camera. The forest on the right, Sequoia National Park, was visited by the same artist in 2020, where he filmed the edited material with a Regular 8mm camera. These two explorations with analog film served as an invitation to the artists in the exhibition to collaborate on a single piece.
JUN (2025, dir. Jun Tiburcio & Sébastien Dosantos Capouet, 1hour 22min)
“What you will see is an excerpt of an ongoing film made with the Totonaco poet and artist Jun that I met several years ago in a town called Chumatlan in Veracruz (Mexico).
From this encounter was born the project of making a film together, putting into play our imaginaries. Jun (the film) is constructed as a book of stories and poems in Totonac, where each chapter contains “imaginary capsules” inhabited by the poet. A figure that appears to us intermittently, as if we were discovering his portrait and his universe through a kaleidoscope.”
POR DENTRO SOMOS COLOR (2025, dir. Elena Pardo, 12min 35sec)
“In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women’s organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium. Foraging for plants is a way to share knowledge with midwives, healers, and xëmaapyë. In Teotitlán del Valle, the Ruiz family makes their own journey in search of colors, which they find inside plants and insects and use to dye the wool they use to weave rugs. Both practices involve traveling the territory, recognizing it, naming it, and relating to everything within it.
This film takes a journey that interweaves the two powers of plants: healing and giving color. In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women’s organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium. Foraging for plants is a way to share knowledge with grandmothers, midwives, healers, and shamans. In Teotitlán del Valle, the Ruiz family makes their own journey in search of colors, which they find inside plants and insects that are used to dye the wool. which they weave rugs. Both practices involve exploring the territory, recognizing it, naming it and relating to everything in it.”
MATERIA PRIMA (2024, dir. Beatriz Millón, 29 min)
“An audiovisual essay that takes the viewer on a journey through the night sky, the Chilean brines, and through the skin, all the way to the mining landscapes of Mexico and Valencia: to delve into the mineral veins that make up our body-territories. Drawing on the knowledge of environmental defenders and critical thinkers, this short film explores the beauty, history, and dispossession of the minerals that circulate through our blood, transform into our breathing, and sustain the colonial legacy of the capitalist world-system. Raw Material is the result of years of research and activist accompaniment by Bea Millón, along with the sound materialization of Manuel López.”
Latin American Land/Escapes at SOIL gallery
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