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‘Video’ Category

War Peru|Colombia

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Colombia and Peru engaged in a war during the years of 1932 and 1933.  This war was the first Colombian war after the independence calling for the  defense of the Colombian sovereignty.  As such, it entailed the performance of patriotism of the young Colombian state.  The Acevedo Brothers -filmmakers and producers of the national news El Noticiero Nacional- traveled to the frontier and filmed the war; however as spectacle it did not account well enough for the patriotic efforts conducted from the center to the periphery.   Therefore some of the scenes of the war were reenacted in order to convey what actually was not dramatic enough as a war.  I took the archival footage and reassembled it.  I look for moments of mediation between the center and the periphery, the young nation state and its centralism, the performance of power in the image as well as what cannot be incorporated into this discourse.

April 9, 2009

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Video by Kate Chandler and Claudia Salamanca

On April 9 2009 outside the main gates of Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada a non-violent action took place.  Calling attention to the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper Drones operated inside the Air Force installations, demonstrators questioned the U.S. military’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles to wage war in Afghanistan and Pakistan.   Fourteen individuals trespassed across the main gates of the Creech Air Force Base in what participants are calling, “… the first major act of civil disobedience against drones in the United States” (Democracy Now).  We accompanied the demostrators documenting the action.   Our video aims to document the Action as well as to trace questions about the relations in public / military territories.

This video was possible through the wonderful friendship and collaboration of Nevada Desert Experience, Voices for Creative Non-Violence.

For more information:
http://vcnv.org/ground-the-drones-lest-we-reap-the-whirlwind
Democracy Now Reporting “Peace Activists Arrested After Protesting US Drones in Nevada

Death at Once

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

This video looks for the moment of change.  It interrogates what transformation means by reflecting in its relationship with what is left behind, the possibility of a future form and death.  The discussion of transformation that this video presents is embedded in the recording technologies, and its implications with memory, past, future and the sense of seeing.  It asks if it is necessary to see change in order to remember it, or to feel it.

Vistazos Criticos

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Ricardo Arcos-Palma publica en su reciente columna de Vistazos Criticos titulada “El Poder de la Imagen y La Imagen del Poder”  discute los procesos de visibilidad e invisibilidad de la imagen del poder, sus transgresiones, censuras y en sí la multiplicidad de procesos que se dan en el mundo de las images una vez estan entran a ser significantes de poder, performances visuales que establecen relaciones de sociabilidad y política.  En este texto reseña uno de mis videos 30 Segundos.  Les invito a leerlo, al igual que les invito a ver el especial de Contravia a cerca del Alcalde del Roble, municipio de Sucre, asesinado por denunciar los nexos entre los paramilitares y los politicos de su región.  Aqui están los links,

Vistazos Criticos en Esfera Pública: http://esferapublica.org/nfblog/?p=6083

CONTRAVIA. Programa en tres partes: Eudaldo Díaz: el costo de la verdad.
http://www.youtube.com/morrisproducciones#p/u/6/3xwrs9dEgBY
http://www.youtube.com/morrisproducciones

30 Seconds

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

30 Seconds is the first piece in a larger project called Time of death. The main goal is to explore death as an unrepeatable and unshareable experience. This project looks for entrances into the death of the Other, into the impossibility that defines death as such in order to explore modes of relationality that compel us to listen and understand.

On february 1, 2003, Eudaldo Díaz Salgado, aka Tito, the suspended mayor of the small Town of El Roble located in the Sucre region of Colombia took the microphone in a community meeting in which the president of Colombia was present.  He took the floor to speak on education but ultimately gave a speech that described his own death.  Tito denounced the corrupted powers of the Sucre region, revealing by name the dirty nexus of the offices of the regional and national prosecutors, the Administrative Department of Security, and senators of Colombia.  In his speech, we hear –they are going to kill me.  And we hear it more than once. I compare this anticipation of death with my own personal pain in regards to the illness of my mother. Through what is personal I look for the political framed within a much larger context.

30 Segundos es la primera pieza de un proyecto mucho más amplio llamado Tiempo de Muerte. Mi intención es la de explorar la muerte como experiencia irrepetible e imposible de compartir, buscando entradas a la muerte del Otro. Dentro de la misma imposibilidad que anticipa este proyecto, intento construir modos de relación que me lleven a la experiencia de Oir.

El 1 de Febrero de 2003, Eudaldo Díaz Salgado, Tito, el alcalde suspendido de un pequeño pueblo en Sucre llamado El Roble, tomó el micrófono en el Consejo Comunitario que se llevaba a cabo en Corozal con la presencia del presidente de Colombia Alvaro Uribe (http://www.semana.com). Con el pretexto de hablar sobre educación, Tito decide dar discurso donde describe las condiciones de su propia muerte. Eduardo Díaz denunció los poderes regionales del departamento de Sucre, revelando nombre y estableciendo un primer esquema de lo que hoy en Colombia se conoce como la para-política. Tito denunció a la procuraduria regional, al DAS y su director, a senadores y al gobernador de Sucre en ese momento Salvador Arana. En su discurso, oímos que Tito dice, -Me van a matar. Y lo oímos más de una vez. En este video yo comparo esta anticipación del tiempo de muerte, con mi dolor personal en la enfermedad de mi madre. Con lo que es personal busco en lo público, lo político de los dos momentos. Así a través de mi dolor, puedo oir el dolor de Tito.

Me/You/Yo/Tu

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

After my web page was hacked, finally I got the energy to put some things up again.

Me/Yo/You/Tu is a video piece that deals with the complexity of identity and language. I read a biblical text in front of a mirror; a text that involves two women struggling for a position in a patriarchal structure. This video inquiries into the perverseness of language, which frames our utterances within determined social structures. I am interested in those tricks that we as individuals put to ourselves at the moment of performing identity through language and image

Ophelia Backwards

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Ophelia Backwards is a video installation that speaks to the calm image of death in the figure of Ophelia.  However, the video does not show the pale body floating but the instant of the previous agony of drowning.  I insist on this image by putting myself within the impossible moment of death.  This installation was developed in 2002 and it was exhibited in Colombia, Brazil and Spain.  (20 min, Video loop)