Azucena Losana

Mexican Erotica is a collective reappropriation film that explores sex and eroticism from various artistic and aesthetic points of view. A journey of textures, sensations and unmissable pleasures.

The most transcendent and controversial event since the invention of the seventh art: the disappearance of photographic film. What for many people seems to be simply the result of technological evolution, brings with it paradoxes and contradictions that endanger photographic film heritage and accelerate its deterioration.

The scissor dance is a 16th-century magical-religious dance and ritual in which the dancers act as mediators between humans and deities. It originated in the Ayacucho, Apurimac, and Huancavelica regions and began to gain popularity in Lima in the 1980s, during the waves of migration from rural areas to the city.

In a world where technological progress is conceived as an arrow pointing forward, why do some people insist on continuing to work with equipment others refer to as obsolete? Analog Thinking answers that question by documenting the meticulous work of those who choose that path. The screen becomes filled with wonderful objects—optical toys, cameras, projectors, film stock cans, moviolas… And the testimonies from those creators invite us to discover a universe that has a lot to do with both craftsmanship and the collective experience—an instance of thinking with your hands that is only possible with curiosity and patience. And among the words, practices and artifacts, Analog Thinking also saves a place for the images that are born from all of that. And it reminds us that, even in this digital age, they still have a lot to teach us about waiting and making mistakes, surprise and beauty.

The biggest, most populated, and frantic city in South America. While Cariocas are like tropical birds, Paulistas are like frenetic ants. Distances are longer and they're always in a hurry. A busy journey through this beautiful Brazilian beast which cannot help but beating irregularly.

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Performance with live audio equalization.

This is the filmic portrait of Daniel Vicinos, one of the most characteristic figures of Argentina's film industry: inventor, technician, collector, ironwork lover, but above all, in love with cinema.

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In La hora decisiva, Azucena captures, in the midst Mexican Revolution celebrations that happened in November 2019, an improvised street photography set, with people wearing traditional garments being photographed in an elegant armchair with a rifle in their hands, imitating the photographic records of the time. Full of humor, joy and cotillón, Losana comments that, given all the multiple protests that were taking place on the continent at that time, she wondered what Zapata would have thought of our revolutions.

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Roaming through the traditional Christmas stands of live carp fish on the street of Prague.

This is a series of studies filmed in 8 and 16mm about how self-exile develops a familiar and foreign perception about home.

The filmic support as plastic material is an investigation that in this performance proposes the formal study of perforation and that of the human face as representation, chromatic configuration and target of electronic detectors.

On November 22, 2015, a second round of the presidential elections was held in Argentina. Society was deeply polarized, and the candidate chosen as Cristina Kirchner's successor was not anyone's favorite, but the right-wing candidate, Mauricio Macri, was only three points behind. The ruling party seemed defeated, and in response to this urgency, a spontaneous civic campaign was organized in the streets, a last-ditch effort to prevent neoliberal policies from taking hold in the country. This is a record of what happened that day in the streets of Buenos Aires.

In the rainy season, after several days of downpours and gusty winds, calm finally arrives. The animals leave their burrows to dry out and mushroom collection begins. Some are cut for consumption while others remain attached to the surfaces.

An imaginary place on the map of affections, where hawthorn, orange and plum trees coexist. An island and a valley which climbs stairs of all ages.

"Fragments of a few orphan films abandoned in a lab." (the8fest)

A duet for camera.