sssssh #03 – Valentina Alvarado Matos Screening

This screening is focused on several short films by Valentina Alvarado Matos, offering a look at the ways of inhabiting spaces. Valentina Alvarado Matos poetically approaches the material, luminous and sensorial reality while raising questions such as displacement, the domestic, distance and tactile, among others.

Trópico Desvaído (2016, 6:10 minutos)

Tropico Desvaído collapses various modes of representation to explore the processes of transformation of geographic and ethnographic research.

Chances de luz (2017, 3:52 minutos)

El mar peinó la orilla (2019, 2:26 minutos)

Film made in conversation with Eli, a patient at the Centro Clínico de Les Corts in Barcelona, with whom Valentina had many conversations around the sea.

Arrojalatierra (2021, 13:49 minutos)

«If the heart is the muscle that never rests, the hands are not better off as the body’s laborers. They touch, hold, pick, and create, they bring things into existence. This film explores the relationship between art and labor in the most tactile of enterprises. Matter is present both in front of and inside the camera. In front we have ceramics, collectively mixed, molded, and shaped. Inside we have film (celluloid) collecting the light that comes from the world around Arrojalatierra. A film about making things that leave a trace in space and time.» (Lucía Salas)