AEQUADOR – Excerpt 2

AEQUADOR
Laura Huertas Millán
2012 | 19′ | HD 2K | ESP, ENG subtitles

A journey upstream the Amazon River where Modernist constructions have been abandoned like the memories of an engulfed civilization of the future. Aequador is a science-fiction documentary evoking the colonization of nature, former utopias in Latin American forests, and their cohabitation with the present.

” An uchronic travel in a territory with an uncertain topography, Aequador explores nature as a place of emergence of otherness, a landscape where the imprint of men, their narratives and their monuments remain beautifully fragile.” Julien Farenc.

“Aequador is a journey through the cultural landscape that resulted from the ruins of the dreams for modernist progress in Latin America. The images bring us into contact with ideological excesses that attempted to domesticate the Amazon territory. Meanwhile, amidst false ruins and relics of utopian architecture, daily life continues for the area’s local inhabitants.” Juana Suárez

SCREENINGS (selection)
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (solo screening), Argentina, 2015
Cinemateca distrital, Bogota, Colombia, 2015
Espacio de Arte contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2015
Museo MAR, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2015
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), Paris, France, 2015
NYU, New York, United States, 2015
Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Special jury mention), 2014
Lugar a Dudas (solo screening), Cali, Colombia, 2014
La Villa Arson (duo show), Nice, France, 2013
Curtas Vila do Conde, experimental competition, Portugal, 2013
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2013
FICUNAM, Mexico D.F, Mexico, 2013
LABORAL, Gijon, Spain, 2013
L’Alternativa, Festival de cine independiente de Barcelona, Spain, 2013
Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2013
Sixpackfilm festival, Vienna, Austria, 2013
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France, 2012
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2012