Rooted in wetlands, páramos, and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide. A temporal journey in the highlands of Bogota, Colombia, which follows the last 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience of the flora that has historically inhabited this territory. Beginning in the pre-Columbian period of equilibrium between flora and other beings, this anti-anthropocentric report narrates in an expressive and abstract way the effects of colonial deforestation, the drying up of the land, the industrial flattening and the slow cracking of the contemporary city by the flora that has survived.
Angélica Restrepo
Colombian artist with background in Film Programming and New Media, whose work focuses on anti-hegemonic representation and expanded animation. His work has qualified for the 96th Academy Awards, BAFTA, Goya and Lumen Awards–winning the Uppsala Award in Memory of Ingmar Bergman, as well as other awards such as the ZINEBI Grand Award.
Carlos Velandia
Colombian artist with background in Film Programming and New Media, whose work focuses on anti-hegemonic representation and expanded animation. His work has qualified for the 96th Academy Awards, BAFTA, Goya and Lumen Awards–winning the Uppsala Award in Memory of Ingmar Bergman, as well as other awards such as the ZINEBI Grand Award.
The destruction of our planet has reached a point of no return. With capitalism’s unapologetic pursuit of profits above all else catalyses the obliteration of our nature and everything in it—the people and their cultures too—to just be aware of the exploitation of our lands isn’t enough. Everyone that considers the Earth as their home…
