Sandra Reyes

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

Based on the historical land survey by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Christian Ludwig Gerling, ‘Maps of Wilderness’ explores the limits of measurability. Precise tools encounter weather, distance and that which cannot be fully captured. Analogue animation techniques and a text by Daniela Danz are the starting points for new perspectives by seven female artists.

Nicolás is a little kid who thinks that when his grandmother dies, she goes to the moon. Therefore, he begins to create a lot of artifacts, to travel to the moon to see her again. However, he fails in all his inventions and his father tries to make his dream come true.

“Hycha Guaia” in a language of Colombian indigenous civilization means “I am the Mother Earth”. The short film animation follows a Shaman, who drinks a beverage made of a jungle and hallucinogenic plant, commonly known as “yajé”. He starts to travel through the terrestrial, underground and superior world, trying to connect cosmos, nature and human being.