2022
Video, color, black & white, original sound composition
34:35
This work operates within multiple timelines, past and future, and approaches ‘wilderness’ as a collaborator in revolt. Drawing from histories of cimarrones and indigenous people sheltering and organizing from within forests across the Caribbean, the Americas, and ultimately, globally, this work combines first person historical accounts, poetry (Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, William Carlos Williams among others), contemporary voices from the zeitgeist (TV, Internet, radio, theory), and original text in a minimally intervened-upon landscape.
This work was commissioned by Tufts University Galleries and shown in the exhibition Backed Up Into Dawn (2022) and was re-worked as a live performance for the Museo Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico (2024)
Performances + Voice Acting (in order of appearance) :
Yagrumo/Guanina/1.Sofía Córdova
Kárstica/ Padre Piedrahita/ 2.: Rashaun Mitchell
Acerola/ X/ : 3.Meg Jala
Narrator: Imani Mason Jordan
Director of Photography: Sofía Córdova, Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland
Musical Composition: Sofía Córdova + Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland (XUXA SANTAMARIA)
(with samples from Love, La Lupe, Ismael Rivera)
Audio Mixing and Mastering: Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland
Special Field Assistance: Tim Furstnau
Director: Sofía Córdova