"Screening Pachacuti: Contributions from Transandean Decolonial Visions"
Brings together three Andean cultural activists and their audiovisual work to offer narratives of abundance and environmental justice as Transandean relationality with the more-than-human world. Curated by Manuel Carrión-Lira, PhD Candidate in Literature and Critical Gender Studies. Research project funded by The Speculative Environmental Futures Collective, UC San Diego: "Screening Pachacuti: Transandean Decolonial Visions.
05/17/2024
05/18/2024
"What Humans See As Blood Jaguars See As Chicha"
Directed by: Luciana Decker Orozco
Water like crystals, spirited ruminants and haunted lakes. A meal is prepared, animals graze, wind moves through potato flowers. Land, lore and history conflate, confuse and constellate. Meanwhile: musicians are in the street, ancient objects are unearthed and small plans are made.
Fiction-Documentary | 30 min | 2023
Audio language: English
Subtitles language: English
Luciana Decker Orozco
Filmmaker
Luciana Decker Orozco is a filmmaker from Bolivia, currently an MFA candidate in Cinematic Arts at UWM. Working with 16mm format, she investigates the spectral nature of places, objects, and matter, intertwining them with microhistories revealed through intimate interactions and relationships with the people that participate in her films. Among her productions are "Nana" (2016), "Larama" (2020), "Belén" (2020), "Objetos Parlantes" (2021), "Spoils" (2023), and "What humans see as blood, jaguars see as chicha" (2023). Her work has been showcased at the Mardel Plata International Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Forecast Platform, Torino Film Festival, Frontera Sur, Diffusion, Light Matter Film Festival, Prisme, Transcinema, Radical Film Festival, among others.
"THAKI"
Directed by: Natali Mamani
In Aymara Thakhi means "path". This is the path Natali takes from Brazil to Bolivia, from the present to the past. Between the exits of a long journey, there is an ending that leads to other directions. Sometimes in the Andean essence, the most important lessons lie where the dualities lie, in the detours along the way. A rediscovery of your ancestral existence.
Fiction-Documentary | 35 min | 2022
Audio language: Spanish
Subtitles language: English
Natali Mamani
Filmmaker
Natali Mamani is an Aymara indigenous and Bolivian immigrant in São Paulo.She is a member of the Warmis Base Team - Convergence of Cultures (@warmisimigrantes) and the collective R.A.Z.A.O. She experiments with video art, film essay, performance and produces science fiction short stories.His works use glitch art - a collage of low-quality videos - and references to his experience as an immigrant and the Andean cosmovision.
His work El Danzante was selected for the IV Bienal Del Sur Pueblos en Resistencia, by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2021). She made the essay film Thakhi (2020), in which she talks about identity and immigration, based on images she took during a trip to La Paz.
"Para encauzar y despertar la memoria de las aguas"
Directed by: Paz Plaza
This piece is an audiovisual tapestry that explores the connection, experience, and dialogue of Diaguita women with the waters of their bodies-territories, encompassing their threats, defense, and care within the present territory of Chile. It is crafted as a weaving, with its foundation being the rhythmic flow, the song of the water upon which stories are intricately woven or plotted around the memory of it. Additionally, it includes reflections from personal logs or a field diary as an artist, participant, and facilitator. Visually, it compiles images of the ancestral Diaguita rural and urban territory, along with records of drifts, practices for dialogue with the territories, and ritual actions conducted in this same region as part of the artistic research process. The stories are documented during the first Meeting of the Trans-Andean Network of Diaguita Women Ancestors of the future in present-day Chile, which occurred on January 15, 2022. They are brought to life through the realization of a workshop space titled "Embroidering to channel and awaken the waters" from the Bitácora de Aguas project.
Fiction-Documentary | 32 min | 2021
Audio language: Spanish
Subtitles language: English
Filmmaker
Paz Plaza
Visual artist and architect with academic training, researcher of Andean culture, its traditions, trades and communities as forms of recovery of the Diaguita mestizo memory with which she identifies. She has a degree in architecture from the PUCV, graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Viña del Mar. She is part of different collaborative and/or pedagogical spaces, comanager of the Bitácora de Aguas Project, member of Colectiva AÚNA Tierra diversa, member of Colectiva Tejernos and of the
Trans-Andean Network of Diaguita women "Ancestras del
futuro".
Live Q&A
Screening followed by Q&A with curator Manuel Carrion Lira, Ph.D. Candidate Literature Department at UC San Diego.