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The Third World After the Sun

Analú Laferal & Tiagx Vélez
Colombia
19' 50"

A transvestite ritual performed by the artists Analú Laferal and Tiagx Vélez opens a portal and generates an encounter with a European missionary from the fifteenth century who has delved deep into the jungle in order to fight the belief of animals as divine. A transmaterial dream, shrouded by the penumbra cast by cosmic horrors.

The Third World After the Sun traces the story of rubber in the Colombian jungle along two strands: one is historical, and deals with its extraction, its value and its connection to exploitation and colonialism. The second is sexual — for, of course, “latex” and “kink” belong to the same realm. Accumulating more and more towards a trance, Analú Laferal & Tiagx Vélez create a ritualistic, performative space that feels sticky and feverish, yet liberating and dreamlike, where the normative boundaries of gender and sexuality blur and emancipate themselves. History, politics, pleasure, fluids, bodies, the human and the non-human, the benign and the evil, all mix into a dizzying whirl that activates and undermines those multiple connotations of the imaginary of the jungle and word “exotic”, terms so intricately tied to the projections of desire and the vocabulary of colonialism. (Dora Leu)

Screening date and location

September 28th, 4:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Analú Laferal & Tiagx Vélez

Tiagx Vélez is a director, film editor and transvestite. Has an MA in documentary film. Her artistic practices focus on the intersections of experimental film, expanded cinema, and archival work, in order to address queer existences, counter-anthropocentrist thinking and occultist practices. Currently part of the group Archivo Shub, and works as part of the programming team of Cinema Comfama.

Analú Laferal is an artist, writer and performer. She performs minor rituals through mundane technologies. Professor and researcher from Universidad de Antioquia; MA in cultural studies and visual arts. She has explored fleeing identities, ceremonial post-pornography, animal cross-dressing, and surgical procedures as technologies of creation. She is currently developing the project Necropolíticas de la heteronormativadad alongside the researcher Pablo Letal.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Cast: Analú Laferal & Tiagx Vélez
  • Script, direction, editing: Analú Laferal & Tiagx Vélez
  • Cinematography: Jairo Martínez & David Correa Franco
  • Art direction: Juanita Salamanca & Daniel Rincón
  • Sound: Archipiélago Sonoro
  • Produced by: Crisálida Cine
  • in co-production with: Bruma Cine
  • Production: Juliana Zuluaga Montoya

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A transvestite ritual performed by the artists Analú Laferal and Tiagx Vélez opens a portal and generates an encounter with a European missionary from the fifteenth century who has delved deep into the jungle in order to fight the belief of animals as divine. A transmaterial dream, shrouded by the penumbra cast by cosmic horrors.
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