Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
Barrunto
Barrunto
Emilia Beatriz
Porto Rico, Escócia
2024
Filme
Longa-Metragem
“Barrunto” is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to a bodily restlessness, an omen, or a prediction felt through signs present in the environment (as when rain is predicted through pain or when ants emerge in anticipation of an earthquake). An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed; in sites of displacement, nuclear contamination, and military occupation, from Scotland to Puerto Rico; from the bottom of the ocean to the planet Uranus. Based on poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance, Barrunto is a speculative narrative composed of digital, archival, and 16mm film hand-processed in “grief tea.”
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edition
8° Festival ECRÃ
date and
time
Estação NET Botafogo
28/06/2024
16h
duration in min
70
debut
Première Latina
classification
indicative
12 anos / Not recommended for children under twelve years old / Não Recomendado Para Menores de Doze Anos
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Emilia Beatriz
Emilia Beatriz is a Puerto Rican diaspora artist and worker based in Glasgow. BARRUNTO is Emilia’s first film for cinematic contexts.
Emilia’s practice is concerned with the stories that absence and rupture tell, lived through entangled histories of bodies and lands. Emilia engages translation through the senses; moving to the rhythm of island time, sick time, moss time. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives – grounded in oral history and community archive – centred on dreaming, action and grief work in tune with climate and place.
Emilia is a co-founder of Collective Text, a disabled-led group that collaborates on creative subtitling, audio description and interpretation.
Recent work includes texts published in ‘Paradise Now! a handbook for climate and youth justice" by Hussein Mitha, & Deveron Arts and "observatorio de lagunas/lacuna observatory" by Sofía Gallisá Muriente & The Puerto Rican Arts Initiative; collective exhibition In Dispersion / En la Dispersión, VISARTS, Maryland; lecture On Moss as Matter & Metaphor with Amelia Merced; performance/reading of "Sappho's Wake" for "a wake: on mourning, marking and moving forward together with joy" organized by Birds of Paradise and San Alland; zine "grief into action" and exhibition "declarations on soil and honey" CCA, Glasgow, 2019.
Emilia’s practice is concerned with the stories that absence and rupture tell, as experienced through entangled histories of bodies and land. Emilia engages translation across senses; moving at the pace of island time, sick time, moss time. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives —grounded in oral history and community archiving— centering dreaming, action, and griefwork attuned to climate and place.
Emilia is co-founder of Collective Text, a disabled-led group who collaborates on creative captioning, audio description and interpretation.
Recent work includes texts published in ‘Paradise Now! a handbook for climate and youth justice’ by Hussein Mitha, & Deveron Arts and ‘observatorio de lagunas/lacuna observatory’ by Sofía Gallisá Muriente & The Puerto Rican Arts Initiative; group exhibition In Dispersion / En la Dispersión, VISARTS, Maryland; talk On Moss as Matter & Metaphor with Amelia Merced; ‘Sappho’s Wake’ performance/reading for ‘a wake: on mourning, marking and moving forward together with joy hosted by Birds of Paradise and San Alland; ‘grief into action’ zine and ‘declarations on soil and honey’ exhibition CCA, Glasgow, 2019.
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