The Rite of Earth : New films from Colectivo Los IngravidosALL AGES
The Nest of the Sun
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2021, Mexico, 16m
In the nest of the sun, Xolotl, Huitzilin and Xochitl meet to recover the dance of radiation,
whose colorful heat stirs the new fire of their cosmic dance.
Tonalli
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2021, Mexico, 16m
Drawing on the ancient Nahuatl concept of the animating soul or life force, Tonalli
engages the ritualistic powers of the cinema, summoning fire, flowers, and many moons
into a frenetic and mesmerizing in-camera collage. Here, amid thickly swirling images and
textured abstractions, the gods of creation and fertility manifest, dissolving into iridescent
colors and dense, corporeal rhythms.
Tierra en Trance
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2022, Mexico, 16m
These are the dancing bodies in an agitated rapture: prelude to trance, invocation of the
gods, consecration of intermittence. Here our point of view sparkles under the spell and
trance of things gathered, fallen, yielding, pluvial, Mesoamerican wind, goddess breath,
breeze of sticks. percussive woods. Here the audiovisual diagram that guides us, the
kinetic breath that inspires us, the serpentine spear that snatches us away, the agitated
plumes that trembles at us are the sound and rumbble of Teponaztli, a Mesoamerican
percussive instrument: serpentine, dancing, bouncing sticks, trunks, branches and wood.
Kinetic and audiovisual serialism from the embers of the Earth. This is the Earth in a
Trance.
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