Experimentations 7 | Carolina Caycedo: The Lives of Rivers

Filmforum hosts Carolina Caycedo in conjunction with We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro, the PST ART art and environmental justice exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Museum. This film program showcases Caycedo’s film and video work, emphasizing the artist’s commitment to promoting the teachings of reciprocity with nature and personifying rivers, watersheds, plants, and other non-human beings as political agents.

In her video work, Caycedo utilizes varying modes – documentary, dance, visual effects, observational, poetic, meditative -- to explore the milieu, the losses, and the possible re-births, of waterways in the Americas. The films contrast the lifestyles of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in their understanding of the uses of and debts owed to the rivers that give us life. These beautiful films express indigenous beliefs while reckoning with modernity, using the visual technology of today in common cause with activists and stakeholders seeking to restore our rivers and by extension, ourselves.

Filmforum hosts Carolina Caycedo in person for Q&A along with others to be announced.

Presented as part of Los Angeles Filmforum's PST ART: Art & Science Collide public screening series Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film.