LIVING FOREST – NAKU IKINYU
Tatiana Lopez | Ecuador 2021 | 21 Min. | OmeU
16.05. | 5pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
PART OF THE SHORT FILM PROGRAMME ESSA II
Austrian Premiere
In presence of Tatiana Lopez
Following the spiritual beliefs of their ancestors, the Ecuadorian Sapara consider all life to be equally valuable. They see themselves as part of a world animated by human, non-human, and spirit beings. In their dreams, they connect with these and strive to live in an all-encompassing harmony with nature. But this approach to life is increasingly exposed to external influences and the balance they practice threatens to come apart at the seams.
LIVING FOREST is a collaborative sensory-ethnographic film essay that uses its expressive power to make tangible the fluid passages and entanglements between the dreamlike spiritual world and the physical material world.
Director: Tatiana Lopez (she/her)
Camera: Drone Ipiak Ushigua (she/her), Nema Ushigua (she/her), Mukutsawa Montahuano (she/her)
Drone Assistance: Bolo Miranda (he/his)
Action Camera: Lince Ushigua (she/her), Felipe Ushigua (he/his)
Editing: Charic M Cerda Freire (he/him) & Tatiana Lopez
Sound: Julio Valle (he/his)
Musik: Rodrigo Gallardo (he/him)
Production: Tatiana Lopez
presented by
AWARDS
2021 – SVA Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work, Winner
2021 – Audience Award, Muestra de Antropologia Audiovisual de Madrid (MAAM)
SCREENINGS
2021 – Nature and Culture Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 – “Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival” Quarter Finalist, Sassari, Italy
2021 – MAAM, Nominee – Student Documentaries, Madrid, Spain
2021 – Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival Virtual Edition, USA
2021 – Global Peace Film Festival, Free for all Short Virtual Edition, Florida, USA
2021 – “Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression”, Helsinki, Finland
BIOGRAPHY
Tatiana Lopez is an Ecuadorian visual – artist – anthropologist – storyteller whose research interests include indigenous people’s animistic practices, body-territory relations in connection to indigeneity, and the study of human and non-human relations through dreams. Through the MA in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, Tatiana has been exploring practice-led research that combines participatory and sensory ethnography as her main methods of representation.
