24.07.2020
Cooperation

Zwischenräume: walking, talking, minerals
The Golden Pixel Cooperative

Fri, 24 July, 9pm

Film program curated by Nathalie Koger and Bernhard Staudinger.

Ana Vaz, A idade da pedra, 2013, 29 min (Portuguese with English subtitles)
Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Vestiges (an archipelago), 2020, 40 min (English with English subtitles)

Followed by a conversation between Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Nathalie Koger.
Introduction: Enar de Dios Rodríguez

Not long ago Donna Haraway, author and prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies, reminded us of the importance of the stories we tell to tell other stories. Walking, talking, minerals is a screening program whose films unfold from humans’ extractive practices to tie stories that accompany, evolve and result from these processes and contexts. Stories of how quartzite, sand or gold are entangled in a global machine that has been named progress, constantly shaping how cities, natural resources, labor or economic value are being assembled.

Ana Vaz, A idade da pedra, 2013, 29 min
A voyage into the far west of Brazil leads us to a monumental structure, petrified at the centre of the savannah. Inspired by the epic construction of the city of Brasília, the film uses this history to imagine it otherwise.

Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Vestiges (an archipelago), 2020, 40 min
Composed as a typology of islands, this video essay investigates humans’ insatiable demand of sand, the most extracted natural resource after water. A poetic narrative maze where colonialism, dredging machines or land reclamation projects emerge.