Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
Overview of films
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Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: Land and Resistance
A diverse programme of works looking at power through many different lenses: land, food, sovereignty, might, protest and survival. -
After América
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 7' | Mexico | International premiere
A voice guides you through a tour of an exhibition about the Americas while your eyes bring you to mars. -
Batalla
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 4' | Mexico | International premiere
A body thrashing through flowers becomes a metaphor for the students massacred in Iguala, Mexico. -
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: Incantations and Invocations
Four films that explore themes of the spiritual, supernatural, mythic and mysterious. Films that allow the body and soul to rule the mind. -
Colmillos
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 11' | Mexico | World premiere
When the animal passes, the fangs are what remain. Through them spirits can be conjured. -
Coyolxauhqui
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 9' | Mexico | International premiere
A sombre film that explores the wreckage of femicide in a country gripped by it. -
Itzcóatl
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 5' | Mexico | International premiere
A rush of images, the beating of drums: awaken Itzcóatl, the ‘Obsidian Serpent’! -
Notes for a Déjà Vu
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 22' | Mexico | International premiere
Jonas Mekas waxes wistfully over images from a trip to Mexico that never happened. -
Ritual
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 15' | Mexico | World premiere
An invitation to see the unseeable: the sun, many suns, burning gloriously into our retinas. -
Seeds
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 10' | Mexico | World premiere
The world-famous Mexican corn kernel, up close and personal, in all its glory. -
Sensemayá
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 7' | Mexico | International premiere
New spirits are evoked when old home movies are flipped onto themselves. -
Tear Gas
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | 1' | Mexico | International premiere
X-rays of chest cavities pulsate with laboured breaths to conjure the body in duress.