Walking, Talking, Minerals
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Hellbrunner Str. 3, 5020 Salzburg
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Not long ago Donna Haraway, author and prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies, reminded us of the importance of the stories we tell to tell other stories. Walking, talking, minerals is a screening program whose films unfold from humans’ extractive practices to tie stories that accompany, evolve and result from these processes and contexts. Stories of how quartzite, sand or gold are entangled in a global machine that has been named progress, constantly shaping how cities, natural resources, labor or economic value are being assembled.
Program
24.07.2020
■ ANA VAZ: A IDADE DA PEDRA
2013,29 min.
A voyage into the far west of Brazil leads us to a monumental structure, petrified at the centre of the savannah. Inspired by the epic construction of the city of Brasília, the film uses this history to imagine it otherwise.
■ ENAR DE DIOS RODRÍGUEZ: VESTIGES (AN ARCHIPELAGO)
2020, 40 min
Composed as a typology of islands, this video essay investigates humans’ insatiable demand of sand, the most extracted natural resource after water. A poetic narrative maze where colonialism, dredging machines or land reclamation projects emerge.
25.07.2020
■ SALOMÉ LAMAS: ELDORADO XXI
2016, 125 min
"Eldorado XXI" is a haunting and mysterious ethnographic reality cut-up. Set in the highest settlement in the world in the Peruvian Andes, an illusion leads men to self destruction, moved by the same interests, dealt with the same tools and means in contemporaneity as it has been dealt in the ancient times.