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In Focus: Alexandra Cuesta 3

Vientos de Chanduy

A brother and a sister perform rituals of illness and passing in a series of haunting tableaux shot in Chanduy, in coastal Ecuador, As Alexandra Cuesta has written, Rodríguez Dávila’s images “bring life to the ghosts of the past and his filmmaking becomes an exorcising gesture.”

Territorio

Territorio is a portrait of the people of Ecuador shot in their environs. “[..] the journey opens in the ocean, crosses the mountains, and descends into the jungle. A stationary camera portrays images of the landscape and of people waiting to be observed. The film is shot in three different regions in Ecuador, inspired by the travel journals of Henri Michaux, a Belgian avant-garde poet who travelled to Ecuador in 1926. In his journals, he arrives by boat and explores the various geographies in the country. He describes his encounters through detailed observation, yet by his own account, considers the book to be an incomplete piece. I was fascinated by his fragmentary approach to formal structure and by his raw elegy to the everyday that led me to my own description.” (Alexandra Cuesta)

In the presence of Alexandra Cuesta and followed by a Q&A