Nido del Sol

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Nido del Sol, 16mm, 2021

Tlaltícpac

We think of our filming process as a shamanic materialism that implies philosophical and speculative cinema and the 16mm film stock is a fundamental part of our aesthetic, material and sensorial cinematic experience. We use multiple filters, superimpositions and montage on camera, as well as multiple layers of colors.

Filming with a 16mm Bolex camera is an anarchy in motion, an anarchy crowned by color, light, shapes, rhythms, cadences, sequences, overlays: silhouettes, contours, textures, flashes, bursts, opacities, darkness, volumes, entrails, pulp, fluids, surfaces, facets, syncopations, all at dizzying speeds. Here all the things, objects, shapes, colors, figures, elements and surfaces coexist, all according to a totally altered order and rhythm. A singularized perceptual change.

Our point of view glimmers under the spell and trance of the things gathered together, it is the order of things in a trance, the dance of things, a gathering of objects, the rapture of things, the coexistence of objects in an intermittent and stormy turbulence: a fluttering between things. All this is filmed and mounted directly in camera, even the superposition of different image layers has been done in camera. The qualities and properties inherent to the Bolex camera allow us to elicit this rhythmic vision in trance. The possibility the Bolex allows of filming frame by frame enable us to integrate a constant modification of the frame in each frame that makes up a second of filming: 24 modifications per second, 24 turgid orders per second, 24 consecrations per second, 24 differentiated intensities per second, 24 optical volumes per second, but also interleaved bursts of 12, 16, 18, 24, 32, 46 frames. The materiality and perceptual speed of the type of film (the sensitivity and materiality of the film emulsion) is also essential. We also intend to include transformed and mobilized frame volumes by differential lenses of 10mm, 25mm, 75mm, 120mm, 400mm. A contraction and expansion of the sequential volume of things. Here the objectification of the gaze experienced in the real world is drilled into, dissolved and released in a dance of reality. Finally the visual dimension of everything expands and vibrates in a percussive sonic dimension. A composition and musical improvisation performed by a Mexican percussionist on this luminous writing consecrate the breath, the fluttering and the rhythm of things. A composition and improvisation on the embers of the Earth. All of this as a part of our films.

by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos