Colectivo los ingrávidos: New Works, including the premiere of Tierra en Trance

Tierra en Trance

Los Angeles Filmforum presents

Colectivo los ingrávidos: New Works, including the premiere of Tierra en Trance

Sunday November 6, 2022, 7:30 pm

At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057

In person: Colectivo los Ingrávidos

Dedicated to the memory of Amy Halpern

Tickets: $12 general, $8 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members

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Filmforum has commissioned five artists to make new work, generously funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and over the next year will be presenting the premieres of the works, including discussions with the artists.  We are delighted to welcome Colectivo los ingrávidos from Mexico for two public screenings, one at Whammy! Analog on November 5, and one at 2220 Arts on Sunday November 6. 

In the November 6^th program, we are delighted to host the West Coast Premiere of the work supported by our commission, “Tierra en Trance”, along with three more works from the past year.  The utterly absorbing filmmaking of these four films carries the viewer into hypnotic spaces, drawing on images of contemporary, historical, and mythic Mesoamerica, run through a wide range of filmic manipulations to reflect on the social and political issues of Mexico and beyond.  Their films are real knockouts, highlights of any mixed program in which they are included, stunning to eye and ear, opening new possibilities for “experimental film.”  Prepare to be dazzled.

“The experimental filmmakers known as Colectivo los ingrávidos formed in Tehuacán, Mexico, in 2012. They adopted their name, which translates into English as ‘the weightless’, from the title of the first novel of Mexican author Valeria Luiselli, a novel that examines acts of translation that play out in three parallel lives against a backdrop of Spanish-language literary culture in North America. Inspired by Luiselli’s themes—of translation, displacement, and the imaginative reconstruction of identity—los ingrávidos posed a challenge to the repressive ideology evident in mainstream cinema. They have pursued the radical, alternative grammar of poetic filmmaking, contesting cultural officialdom, cherishing ecstatic communions with the natural world, and tethering aesthetic experience to social support and free will. Any description of the collective as a cohesive unit must also acknowledge the diversity of their processes, from diaristic visions of life in contemporary Mexico, to found footage and digital abstraction. The films and videos of los ingrávidos are signed in solidarity, under a collective banner, and yet express by this medley a restless collision of forms, fashioned together in love and outrage.” – from “Revelations By Sunlight: Translation, Monument and Metaphor in Los Ingrávidos’s The Sun Quartet” by Stephen Broomer