Ecologies of Encounter
Felipe Castelblanco
This in-person screening with artist and filmmaker Felipe Castelblanco offers insight into a practice that brings together filmmaking, artistic research, and long-term collaboration with communities and environments. His work develops through processes of travel, collective inquiry, and site-responsive experimentation, where moving images emerge from sustained engagement with specific territories rather than predetermined narratives.
Castelblanco approaches film as a relational medium — one shaped by encounter, participation, and embodied experience. Working closely with local knowledge systems, ecological processes, and shared rituals, his projects explore how landscapes, plants, and human bodies participate in the production of memory and meaning. The camera becomes less an observing device than a tool for negotiation and co-presence.
This programme brings together Ayênan: Water Territories and And Behind The Night / Detrás de la Noche, both reflecting this methodology. Together, the works foreground attentive forms of movement and listening, proposing cinema as a space for rethinking how humans situate themselves within living environments and interconnected worlds.
What else is on Friday?
Check the timetable to visit more programmes with your Festival Pass (5-days) or Day Pass (1-day). With the passes you can also visit the festival exhibition Techno-Ancestrality at the IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and BAK Basecamp.
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