Films
In some of our works and investigations, we felt that photographs and texts were no longer enough to fully tell the stories of the territories that moved through us. With the same spirit of walking alongside communities, and while preserving the depth of our research and the poetics of images, we decided to enter the world of documentary film as a new narrative tool.
Because there are realities that should not only be shown: they need time, movement, and voices to unfold their full force.
Cinema thus became another way of listening, accompanying, and amplifying stories that cannot —and should not— remain silent.
A 70-minute documentary on the impacts of extractivism in Vaca Muerta and the resistance of the Mapuche people, co-produced by Calma Cine, Cooperativa Lawen, Kvme Felen Producciones, and the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén.
Pablo E. Piovano documents life in Argentina’s fumigated towns, revealing the chemical violence that sickens bodies and territories.
The struggle of a Mapuche spiritual leader in southern Chile, alongside more than 120 communities defending a sacred river against the advance of a Norwegian hydroelectric project.
Through a poetic letter addressed to his son, Pablo E. Piovano explains why he chose to give him a Mapuche name.