An expanded cinema performance that observes and listens to visible and underground territories, both physical and intangible, in two regions of Mexico that currently experience or resist mining activities: Zacatecas and Oaxaca.
Performers:
Elena Pardo (Mexico) is a visual artist and director of documentary films, experimental cinema, and animated movies. One of her lines of work is exploring the possibilities of photochemical film material— preserving and capturing images, working in a laboratory, and projecting a variety of formats. Since 2005 she has taken part in the expanded cinema collective Trinchera Ensamble. She is also co-founder and current director of Laboratorio Experimental de Cine [Experimental Film Laboratory] (LEC), an art project that surfaced in 2013.
Platons Buravickis (Latvia) is contemporary classical composer, pianist and improviser. Coming from an academic music background his creative work is dedicated to symphonic and chamber music, although he extensively explores and works with electroacoustic music. He composes musique concrète also music based on sound synthesis.
Year of production: 2022
Duration: 40 min
Format: 3 x 16mm projector and live sound performance
Performed at PROCESS festival in Riga, 2023
Curated by Baltic Analog Lab
