For LSFF 2021’s Platform showcase, we’re excited to screen the hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic works of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Since forming in Tehuacán, Mexico in 2011, the collective have anonymously produced and disseminated over 300 audio-visual works, spanning form from essay films, found-footage reconstruction, feverish shamanistic incantations and charged acts of political resistance.
Synthesising documentary footage with playful abstraction, their art-making concerns itself with the need to overthrow dominant audio-visual aesthetics of corporatist TV and cinema, scrutinising its ideological ties to state-sanctioned violence, femicide and ethnic cleansing.
Their varied style and radical sense of purpose offers up both the poetic and the sublime, creating violent, hypnotic beauty out of eroded celluloid and flickering pixels.
Programmed by Tom Grimshaw. 68’
Presented in association with Light Cone. Platform is an annual strand committed to spotlighting contemporary artist filmmakers working in unconventional ways across mediums.
This programme contains oral testimonies of violence and trauma, and flashing images.
Subtitles are provided with thanks to our partnership with Subly.
#madewithsubly
COYOLXAUHQUI
A recasting of the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.
- Year2017
- Runtime10 minutes
- CountryMexico
- DirectorColectivo Los Ingrávidos
For LSFF 2021’s Platform showcase, we’re excited to screen the hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic works of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Since forming in Tehuacán, Mexico in 2011, the collective have anonymously produced and disseminated over 300 audio-visual works, spanning form from essay films, found-footage reconstruction, feverish shamanistic incantations and charged acts of political resistance.
Synthesising documentary footage with playful abstraction, their art-making concerns itself with the need to overthrow dominant audio-visual aesthetics of corporatist TV and cinema, scrutinising its ideological ties to state-sanctioned violence, femicide and ethnic cleansing.
Their varied style and radical sense of purpose offers up both the poetic and the sublime, creating violent, hypnotic beauty out of eroded celluloid and flickering pixels.
Programmed by Tom Grimshaw. 68’
Presented in association with Light Cone. Platform is an annual strand committed to spotlighting contemporary artist filmmakers working in unconventional ways across mediums.
This programme contains oral testimonies of violence and trauma, and flashing images.
Subtitles are provided with thanks to our partnership with Subly.
#madewithsubly
COYOLXAUHQUI
A recasting of the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.
- Year2017
- Runtime10 minutes
- CountryMexico
- DirectorColectivo Los Ingrávidos