Projects
2024
BEYOND EXTRACTION
Araucanía and Antofagasta’s Geological Narratives
Araucanía + Antofagasta, Chile • Collaboration with Maria Gabrila Carucci and Mahwish Khalil
Amidst the growing climate crisis, there is an urgent need for intermedia narratives that decenter the Anthropocene and allow nature to take center stage. Through a visual essay and film, parallels are drawn between two contrasting geological Chilean landscapes: the dense forests of Araucanía and the mined deserts of Antofagasta, often framed through opposing logics of abundance and scarcity.
The work intervenes in how knowledge about land, extraction, and ecological transformation is produced, mediated, and shared. The film assembles field cuts through association rather than hierarchy—making room for incomplete, overlapping, and contested narratives. It emerges through a process of continual reassembly across media formats: raw footage, sound, writing, and field notes.
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Editing becomes a spatial curatorial practice, an act of speculative composition that allows for multiple temporalities and layered forms of inquiry.Framing film as a tool for ecological accountability, the research questions: How might non-linear approaches reshape our epistemologies of land and ecological change towards new practices of solidarity, sensing, and world-building?
Supported by the MIT Film Makers Association
- Awarded the CAMIT Seed Grant and Research Grant by MISTI Chile at MIT