flux, 2021
María Concha
Querétaro, México
Documental
Conceptualización y realización de obra (preproducción, producción y postproducción)
Tras vivir más de 25 años en la misma casa, la familia Concha Vázquez —¡y todas las plantas!— se mudan a un nuevo hogar. Este documental multiespecies es un acercamiento al proceso de adaptación de las plantas a un nuevo clima, sonidos, luz, pájarxs, insectxs, humanxs, cíborgs y muchxs otrxs acompañantes inesperadxs… todo en un constante estado de flux.
Experimental short documentary
María Concha, 2021
14:45
After living for more than 25 years in the same house, in a rural area in Querétaro, the Concha Vázquez family —and all of the plants!— are moving to a new house in a much more urbanized area, in the same city of Querétaro. This multispecies documentary portrays the process of moving all the plants from one house to the other, paying close attention to their process of adaptation as they tangle around other plants, walls, dogs, birds, insects, humans, cyborgs, and many other unexpected companions… all in a constant state of flux.
To flow; that is the meaning of the latin word fluxus, which was also adopted by the 60s art movement founded by the artist George Maciunas. A revolutionary group of people who wrote and performed “event scores'' in which improvisation was vital. Perhaps unconsciously having in mind some of the fluxus ideas, this documentary is an attempt for a less binary and more tentacular story, having less universal ideas and more partial connections; portraying open-sympoietic systems instead of closed-autopoietic ones. How to connect with plants? “Otherness. It’s a kind of letting go. Not knowing and being with each other not knowing” (Haraway, D., 2019).