Tear Gas

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | 2019 | 1' |

| IFFR 2024

We close the programme with a visceral exploration of freedom and autonomy by focusing on its most concrete expression: the breath of life. Flickering images of chest x-rays flash with deep and laboured breaths, a body in duress in black and white. A final reminder of the very real danger involved in righteous struggle.

– Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss

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After América
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A voice guides you through a tour of an exhibition about the Americas while your eyes bring you to mars.
Seeds
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The world-famous Mexican corn kernel, up close and personal, in all its glory.
Itzcóatl
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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.