THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD (2016)
Three–channel HD video installation, 2:39, color, three–channel mono sound, 90 min. sync in a loop, Peru/Portugal/Switzerland/FranceCommission: Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement – BIM 2016
Production: O Som e a Fúria, Lamaland
Coproduction: Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève
Support: FMAC – Fonds d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Genève, FCAC – Fonds cantonal d’Art Contemporain, Faena Art, Fondazione In Between Art Film, HEAD
Produced with materials from Eldorado XXI (2016)
There is no need to design or stage an apocalyptic landscape, for the earth we inhabit is already in crisis, and the apocalypse is now. Attempting to redefine ethnographic film tradition, The Burial of the Dead is a video installation set in the Peruvian town of La Rinconada at an altitude of 5,500 meters on the edge of a gold mine; it captures a dystopian world that scarcely seems possible in the 21st century – indeed a Dantesque Escherscape of haunting beauty.
It was developed under the frame of a commission by Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement — BIM 2016.
