Terraphilia’s Film Cycle

Bringing together works by Regina de Miguel, Allora & Calzadilla, Anetta Mona Chisa Lucia Tkáčová, Amar Kanwar, Yeo Siew Hua, Omar Mismar, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Eduardo Williams, Deborah Stratman, and Riar Rizaldi, Terrafilia’s Film Cycle merge experimental documentary, essay film, and speculative fictions, to navigate the fractures and continuities of our planetary condition. 

From necropolitics to ecological resistance, from ritual to resource extraction, the films trace spectral geographies where the legacies of colonialism, environmental devastation, and social upheaval converge. They open up spaces of dissonance and reflection, staging encounters with more-than-human agencies, volatile histories, and possible futures. 

Conceived as an extension of the festival’s explorations, the cycle proposes cinema as a medium attuned to the temporal fault lines of our present—revealing how images can unearth hidden strata, weave critical fabulations, and reassemble our sense of what is still possible. 

Language: Original version with English and Spanish subtitles.

Films and authors: 

Regina de Miguel: Nekya: A Film River (74 min) 

Allora and Calzadilla: A Man Screaming is not a Dancing Bear (11 min 15 sec) 

Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová: Capital: Magical Recipes for Love, Happiness and Health (12 min 17 sec) 

Amar Kanwar: The Scene of Crime (42 min) 

Yeo Siew Hua: An Invocation to the Earth (16 min) 

Asunción Molinos Gordo: Barruntaremos (Inklings) (9 min 38 sec) 

Deborah Stratman: Last Things (50 min) 

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Đại Bác Nghe Quen Như Câu Dạo Buồn (The Sounds of Cannons), Familiar Like Sad Refrains) (9 min 42 sec) 

Eduardo Williams: Pude ver un puma (Could See a Puma) (17 min) 

Omar Mismar: Abou Farid’s War (31 min) 

Riar Rizaldi: Mirage: Eigenstate (30 min)