Aria in Vanitas
An exploration of life using mold, the very living thing that grows on decay, as both the conductor and material.
Hematic Cultures
Hematic Cultures
After coating my own film with menstrual blood and silver for catching light, the film started to decompose on a period of 6 months during which I took samples of the micro fauna colonizing the film. I recorded the fungus growing on the film and then combine these images with intervened 16mm film. This performative experimental film is an exercise of thinking on the small ecosystems that exist on films and our bodies. It’s a sketch of mycelium and mycorrhizal connecting the film and the ecosystem.
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Director
Anaís Córdova Páez
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Anaís Córdova Páez
Anaís is dedicated to reflecting on how politics, ecology, gender and moving images dialogue in the age of Internet. Her work puts care at the center as a way to challenge the processes of creativity in film production and exhibition. She has collaborated with artists and collectives from the global south. She is director of the short film Lubricas (2016) and the series Amazonia+Covid (2020). She holds a master's degree on film curating studies from Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola- San Sebastian/Donostia and was fellow from Flaherty seminar 2022. She is programmer of Equis Festival de Cine Feminista- Ecuador and has programmed in the Balkans, Spain, and Colombia. Anaís believes on science like an experiment and fungus like the future.
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