Plant Visions and River Territories
Felipe Castelblanco
Felipe Castelblanco is an artist and filmmaker whose work unfolds through long-term collaborations with communities, landscapes, and knowledge traditions. Moving between film, research, and socially engaged practice, he develops projects that emerge from sustained encounters with specific territories and their histories. Castelblanco’s work often brings together Indigenous knowledge, ecological thought, and experimental forms of storytelling. Rather than treating film as a neutral recording device, he approaches it as a space for dialogue and shared inquiry. Through these processes, his films become sites where different epistemologies—scientific, spiritual, ecological, and communal—meet and negotiate how knowledge, memory, and territory are understood.
The films in this programme trace encounters between plants, rivers, and ancestral knowledge across the Andean–Amazon region. Through journeys that move between territories, states of consciousness, and systems of belief, the works reveal landscapes shaped by both ecological interdependence and political struggle. A hallucinogenic plant opens portals between worlds and temporalities, while a river journey follows a vertical geography where Indigenous resistance, ecological processes, and extractive economies intersect. The programme concludes with an intimate portrait of a spiritual leader whose role connects community, territory, and sacred plants, showing how ancestral knowledge continues to guide cultural renewal and collective survival.
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