recortes

9:56, 16mm, Sound 2023

Field journal entries, both mine and of others, are ground together to explore what is filtered and what remains as families of fauna and flora move from one environment to another.

Accompanying artist book

recortes is both a 16mm experimental animation and artist book. Both the film and the book explore observation as a collaborative process that intermingles the past and future into present tense rhizomatic observations. It also contemplates the changes that occur when flora and fauna move from one environment to another.

Purchase the book through Printed Matter. All proceeds I make go to Help Haneen Koraz Empower Voices Through Art.

Director’s Statement

In one generation the ecological knowledge my family gained from living on a coffee farm in Colombia has been filtered out. Looking to the former generation to root myself, this film is composed of observations made by family members of a place that existed as a present-tense for them over 35 years ago as well as in my current place of residence, the unceded land of the Wampanoag and Massachusett peoples (Boston). These observations take the form of Whatsapp messages, drawings, historical field journals and handwritten descriptive texts straddling multiple time periods and geographical locations.

This project is in conversation with the scientific field notebook as a technology that helped structure a very specific way of engaging in the act of observation; one of categories and compartmentalization that sustains dislocation and places pressure on the nature of “belonging”. recortes intertwines personal, community and historical observations, and explores observation as a collaborative process that intermingles the past and future into present tense rhizomatic observations.