Between the volcano and the slope

Between the volcano and the slope

Natalia Castañeda Arbeláez

Colombia - Spain

The film is an immersion in the landscape, a conversation with the mountain where the perspective is inverted to experience the vertigo of the summit, roll down the slope and escape into details of a territory sensitive to change. 

Between the volcano and the slope is a two-channel experimental film. Handheld camera, the work offers a look that reverses the perspective to experience the vertigo of the summit and envelop the viewer with the wet and abrasive texture of the moors and glaciers. It is a journey to Kumanday, Poleka-Kasue and Dulima, ancestral names of the snow-capped volcanoes of Ruiz, Santa Isabel and Tolima, in central Colombia.  

It is a follow up to the territory, where the individual experience composes the story where the temporal space of contemplation is dilated, both of the external and internal landscape, and thus it is evident what happens in the middle: the transformation of the subject and the environment. The register finds an intimacy with the mountain, from a subjective perspective that moves forward, rotates and surrenders to it. A fiction is created that starts from the pictorial and documentary to raise questions about geographical and ecological issues.

The film traces a temporality compared through the document, between the time of the mountain of billions of years and the human transience where the body is the pulse and breath to sustain the gaze and dwell on the conflict of our progress in contrast to the indifference of the mountain.


Trailer: Between the volcano and the slope

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