CELAJE (CLOUDSCAPE)
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Synopsis
Celaje (Cloudscape) oscillates between chronicle, dream and document, using nature’s times to interpret human cycles. Combining images filmed on 16mm and Super8, home movies, a found quarter-inch audio tape, old and hand-developed film, and an original score by José Iván Lebrón Moreira, this essay film is an elegy to the death of the Puerto Rican colonial project and the sedimentation of disasters in this Caribbean island.
Celaje will be preceded by the short Parakupá Vená (Fall from the Highest Point).
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About the Director
Sofía Gallisá Muriente (1986, Puerto Rico) is a visual artist working mainly with video, film, photography, and text. Through multiple approaches to documentation, her work deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives, examining formal and informal archives, popular imaginaries and visual culture. She earned a BFA in Film & TV Production and Latin American Studies at New York University (2008) and has participated in experimental pedagogical platforms led by artists, like Anhoek School and Beta-Local’s La Práctica, substituting graduate studies with a collaborative process of learning and unlearning. She has been a resident artist of Museo La Ene (Argentina), Alice Yard (Trinidad and Tobago), Solar (Tenerife), and Catapult, as well as a fellow of the Flaherty Seminar and the Smithsonian Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Terremoto, Hyperallergic and other publications, and earned her grants from TEOR/éTica, NALAC, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Queens Museum, the Getty’s PST: LA/LA, ifa Galerie in Berlin, San Juan Poligraphic Triennial, MALBA in Argentina and CCA Glasgow, among others. From 2014 to 2020 she served as co-director of the artist-run, non-profit organization Beta-Local, dedicated to fostering knowledge exchange and transdisciplinary practices in Puerto Rico.
