Sangre Seca, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2017
From Vdrome
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
Introduced by Almudena Escobar López October 4–17, 2018
In Sangre Seca, three different temporalities collapse: the eroded celluloid is the present tense of the audience, the images are from the March 8th protests from 2017 and in the soundtrack, the poem Oscuro, written and read in 2012 by María Rivera, documents the violent repression of female protestors in San Salvador Atenco (2006) carried out by the police. Rivera’s “poesía documental” records experiential accounts of personal history. Her poetry is not an aestheticized use of language, rather a direct and sincere intervention that records historical situations, like the attacks in Atenco, which are denied by the government or purposefully obscured or erased. Rivera’s poetry describes the reality of what happened while simultaneously denouncing the official discourse.
Sangre Seca by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2017
Poetry and visual experimentation in Los Ingrávidos are tools to dismantle the discourse that legitimises homicidal misogynistic violence. Each of the films of the femicide trilogy is a form of political resistance as they each capture the emergency, spontaneity and energy of direct political action as spaces that are both lived and conceptual.
