Laura Huertas Millàn in person (3 short films+panel discussion; preceded by reception at 5:30pm)

The Amazon Lab at FHI and Screen/Society present:

Laura Huertas Millàn in person

Laura Huertas Millàn is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist. Her award-winning work combines ethnography, ecology, fiction and historical enquiries. Her work also engages with strategies of survival, resistance and resilience against violence. Sensuous and immersive, her films propose embodied and emotional experiences where aesthetics and politics are indissociable.

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5:30pm - Reception with dinner and drinks at The Ruby (outdoor courtyard in back)
                 [ Registration required --> Click here to register for Reception ]

Join us for a reception celebrating the Amazon Lab’s first year at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Due to the limitations imposed by the pandemic, this will be our first event with food and drinks. We will make up for the lost time and share the Lab’s ongoing activities and future plans.

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Main Program:

7:00pm - Screening of three short films (descriptions below)

8:15pm - Panel discussion and Q&A with Laura Huertas Millán

Panelists:

• Laura Huertas Millàn
• Esther Gabara (Romance Studies & Art, Art History, and Visual Studies - Duke)
• Josh Gibson (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies & Director, Cinematic Arts - Duke)
• Moderated by Gustavo Furtado (Romance Studies & Co-Director, Amazon Lab - Duke)

 

Journey to a Land Otherwise Known (2012, 23 minutes, DCP)
Drawing on the diaries of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Hans Staden, Jean de Léry, Charles de la Condamine and others, this film reflects on the imaginary of first European contacts with exotic places and people in the tropics. The film’s narration is accompanied by images shot at the Tropical Greenhouse of Lille, a building constructed in 1970 by Jean-Pierre Secq.

El laberinto / The Labyrinth (2018, 21 minutes, DCP)
El laberinto follows the labyrinthine memories of the film narrator who was involved in the spectacular rise and fall of drug lords in the Colombian Amazon.

Jiíbie (2019, 24 minutes, DCP)
The elaboration ritual of a green coca powder (called mambe or Jíibie) unveils an ancestral myth of kinship. In the Muina-Muruí Amazonian community the coca plant is not a product, but a sacred interlocutor, the beating heart of a collective body.

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