“Indus is a constellation, the constellation of The Indian, and it seemed to me that it was a name that represented the ideal of the project, the idea of the Muisca (the indigenous group native to the Bogotá... Read Article
An update for this playlist was long overdue, since life sometimes doesn’t allow you to focus on something else that isn’t as urgent as feeding yourself or taking a bath because you need it. Life itself is what... Read Article
As part of the Barbican’s bi-monthly film strand in restoration of global art cinema, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea‘s Cuban classic ‘The Last Supper’ (La últimar cena) will be shown in a rare screening. The 1976 film has proven to... Read Article
What does it say about an artist when, in the same year they’re featured on one of the world’s biggest pop stars‘ hit album, they put out a track with iconic international singer-songwriter? However you want to describe... Read Article
My Imaginary Country, which premiered to standing ovations at Cannes this year, is perhaps the documentary Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has always wanted to make. In 2019 Guzmán told me, ‘I express a longing for Chile to improve... Read Article
It’s been a while, so without further ado here’s a selection of indigenous trap, Candomblé MPB, electro-punk, droned-out música caipira and existentialist samba for your listening pleasure. Brisa Flow – Janequeo (self-released) Brisa Flow, being Brisa de la... Read Article
São Paulo-based DJ Tahira has already proven his credentials as a curator, with two fine compilations released under his stewardship, Jazz & Milk’s Levanta Poeira and Música Macondo’s Brasil Novo, showing respectively the past and present of Afro-Brazilian... Read Article
After the acclaimed The Distinguished Citizen, Argentine directing duo Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn return with the film Official Competition. A priori, the main attraction of this film is the impressive cast of actors in the leading roles:... Read Article
Alex Pritz’s feature debut documentary The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/USA, 2022) depicts the Indigenous resistance to land invasion in the Brazilian Amazon. This subject matter is widely known. It has been extensively voiced by a countless activists, scientists, religious leaders,... Read Article
The epigraph, “I am at the mercy of this dream: I know it’s just a dream, but I can’t escape it” really sets the tone for Nona Fernandez’s 80 page long novella Space Invaders, which is sensitively translated... Read Article
“You can feel yourself inside the river.” Irene Aritsitizábal tells me, as I look up into an enormous piece of patterned silk curling like a serpent from the high ceiling. The light catches the material, highlighting its earthy... Read Article
A historic climate change lawsuit, Luciano Lliuya v. RWE AG, is ramping up again. Indigenous Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya is suing German energy company RWE AG for the costs of preventing the glacial Lake Palcacocha from flooding his... Read Article
The favela community of Vale Encantado in Rio de Janeiro are using a biosystem for sewage treatment and solar panels to make their neighbourhood economically and environmentally self-sufficient, while facing down a long-term threat of eviction. Nestled in... Read Article
Latin America has the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world. And as we have seen globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened the situation. Six countries in the region (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, El Salvador and... Read Article
With La Linea returning to the London live music scene it does feel like things may finally be resuming some form of normality. Cancelled in 2020 right after the pandemic struck, La Linea has had to wait for... Read Article
