DISTANCIA Season Two premieres here on June 15, 2020 as part of Ensayos’ residency at the New Museum.
Direct link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7223262
Tierra del Fuego is remote to many in both physical distance and in the imagination, yet the archipelago at the tip of South America’s southern cone is deeply entangled with global social, political, and ecological conditions. Imagined and realized by Carolina Saquel and Camila Marambio, DISTANCIA contemplates life in and with Tierra del Fuego, countering narratives that presume meaning should be found primarily through scientific observation, documentary, ethnographic interpretation, and geographic analysis. Plotless episodes decenter human exceptionalism, weaving suspenseful and quotidian sensations of the sounds and visual textures of the terrain, the wind, and the psychically-charged histories of human architectures. DISTANCIA draws attention to colonial violence written on the land.
View Season One of DISTANCIA here: https://www.ladistancia.tv/
Related program: Join the New Museum for ““Ecofiction at the End of the World,” https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1669/ecofiction-at-the-end-of-the-world a conversation with Camila Marambio and Carolina Saquel, who imagined and realized the series, joined by collaborators, sound artist Ariel Bustamente and anthropologist Michael Taussig.
DISTANCIA Season Two Credits
Realized and Imagined by
Camila Marambio and Carolina Saquel
Sound Design
Ariel Bustamante
Production Design
Camila Marambio
Production
Julio Gastón Contreras
Camila Marambio
Ivette Martínez
Carolina Saquel
Director of Photography
Matías Illanes
Images
Matías Illanes
Carolina Saquel
Direct Sound
Sebastián Arce
Ariel Bustamante
Carolina Saquel
Nicolás Spencer
Image Editing
Carolina Saquel
Color Correction
Darío Ordenes
Sound Editing and Mix
Ariel Bustamante
Postproduction
Darío Ordenes
Sound Master
Ariel Bustamante and Pablo Thiermann
English Subtitles
Camila Marambio
Title Design
Pablo Gonzalez
Poster and Web Design
Rosario Ureta
Media Strategy
TereQ
With appearances and participation of: Óscar Aguilera, Sebastián Arce, Ariel Bustamante, Reinaldo Catalán, Julio Gastón Contreras, Valentina Espinoza, Alberto Harambour, Camila Marambio, Ivette Martínez, Patricia Messier, Alfredo Prieto, Carolina Saquel, Nicolás Spencer, Michael Taussig, José Tonko and Cecilia Vicuña.
Special thanks to: María Jesús Gutiérrez de Val, Nina Lykke, Christy Gast, WCS Chile, Emily Mello, Andrew An Westover, Sebastián Arce, Ivette Martínez, Javiera Carmona, David Couve, Aharon Gibbs-Cohen, Nicolás Arze, Michael Taussig, Felicia Carlisle, Mo Gourmelon, Carla Macchiavello, SHE (Se habla español), Karin Schneider, ORTVI.ART, Ana Maria Bresciani, Diego Fernández and Philippe Eustachon.
Special credits:
Episode 1
« Al Jardin de la Republica » (1993), Mercedes Sosa
Composer: Virgilio Ramon Carmona
Al Jardín de la República © Warner Chappell Music, Inc
Radio broadcasting on Radio Porvenir FM 99.5 during our car trip from Caleta María to Porvenir.
Sound intervention from the series “Osciladores de viento” © Nicolás Spencer, 2016.
Episode 4
Don Cata, archival images, Philippe Eustachon, 2017.
Episode 6
Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal’s TED Talk on Youtube
Teaser
Original tracks “Cumbita” and “Minueto” by Sebastián Arce remixed by Ariel Bustamante.