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After América

After América

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | 2021 | 7' |

| IFFR 2024

An audio tour from an exhibition about the Americas is put in contrast with digital interpretations of the Mars rover. The mythic vision of adventure and conquest enabled Europeans to regard the native inhabitants of the Americas as alien and inhuman and to treat their ‘discovery’ as a vast empty space for occupation and exploitation. Final frontiers: both new and old.

– Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss

Also in this combined programme

Seeds
Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
The world-famous Mexican corn kernel, up close and personal, in all its glory.
Itzcóatl
Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
A rush of images, the beating of drums: awaken Itzcóatl, the ‘Obsidian Serpent’!
Notes for a Déjà Vu
Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
Jonas Mekas waxes wistfully over images from a trip to Mexico that never happened.
Batalla
Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
A body thrashing through flowers becomes a metaphor for the students massacred in Iguala, Mexico.
Coyolxauhqui
Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
A sombre film that explores the wreckage of femicide in a country gripped by it.
Tear Gas
Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
X-rays of chest cavities pulsate with laboured breaths to conjure the body in duress.