Lessons in Living Otherwise
PROGRAM 1
Just Dandy
TJ Cuthand | 2013 | 7:37
HD video
Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which leads to Turtle Island’s contraction of an invasive European flora.
Less Lethal Fetishes
TJ Cuthand | 2019 | 9:40
Grappling with a latent gas mask fetish, in Less Lethal Fetishes Cuthand muses on art world political controversies, toxic emissions from the petrochemical industry, and complicity in repression and pollution as an artist enmeshed in an art and film industry propped up by dirty funders.
Celaje (Cloudscape)
Sofía Gallisá Muriente | 2020 | 41:00
película 16mm y Super8 con tratamientos diversos // 16mm and Super8 film with various treatments
Celaje oscila entre crónica íntima, sueño y documento histórico. Mezclando imágenes en Super 8 y 16mm, técnicas de revelado artesanal y música original de José Iván Lebrón Moreira, la pieza teje una elegía a la muerte del proyecto colonial y la sedimentación de desastres en Puerto Rico. Las memorias se mueven como nubes, las imágenes se pudren y envejecen, y los rastros del proceso son visibles en la película y en el país, como fantasmas.
Es la tercera y última parte de Asimilar y Destruir, una serie de trabajos que examinan la relación entre el clima y la memoria en el trópico, donde la naturaleza impone la impermanencia.
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Cloudscape oscillates between intimate chronicle, dream and historical document. Combining images in Super 8 and 16mm, hand development techniques and original music by José Iván Lebrón Moreira, the piece weaves together en elegy to the death of the colonial project and the sedimentation of disasters in Puerto Rico. Memories move around like clouds, images rot and age, and the traces of the process are visible on the film and in the country, like ghosts.
It is the third and final part of Assimilate & Destroy, a series of works that examine the relationship between climate and memory in the tropics, where nature imposes impermanence.
