Nanacatepec – Expanded Cinema Film Performance by Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo

‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ – Session 9

September 27th – 7pm

Production: Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC), Crater Lab, Spectral

‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ is a Research Program curated by Margarida Mendes.

Event organized in collaboration with ICNOVA

The Nanacatepec rock is traversed by a network that extends without a defined shape. It communicates both below and above the earth with living and dead beings. Its fruits, in the form of rhizomes and branching networks of fungi, are creators and transformers of everything in the world. Using multiple projections of films and objects in a 16mm film performance, the two artists create an irresistible visual eddy of nature shots and shadow plays.

Azucena Losana’s art practice involves experimental filmmaking, installation and performance. She received a grant from the Art Creators National System programme in Mexico in 2017, and the e-flux prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 2022.

Elena Pardo’s cinematic work spans documentary, animation, installation and live performance. Her expanded cinema and web documentary project Underground Pulses received the support of the Art Creators National System programme. She is a co-founder of the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC), an artist-run lab focused on experimental film in Mexico.

‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ Research program curated and mentored by Margarida Mendes

“On the Wolf’s Trail” is a programme of sensory practices and lectures focused on decolonial ecology and restorative justice that explores pedagogical formats to debate forms of collective repair, restoration, resilience, and healing. Along four years, sessions will be led by practitioners from the fields of arts, environmental humanities, and post-colonial studies, and embrace topics such as mutualism and reciprocity, working towards the repair ancestral relations.