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CORPOREAL RED

Anca Bucur
Romania, 2022
10 min.

Corporeal Red addresses the question of land monetization, by centering on bauxite extraction and processing. The video proposes a critical reading of the landscape of ruins as well of its reminiscent social ecologies, trying to trace a direct link between their wretched materiality and the contemporary colonial extractivist capitalist system.

Geopolitically, there’s no such thing as naive landscapes. And no landscape can escape geopolitics. Resisting the temptation of aestheticization, Anca Bucur scrutinizes “the red mud”, that long trail of bauxite exploitation going from West Africa to Eastern Europe. Looking at it, the filmmaker actually sees—and shows, and mourns—the bleeding Earth, the image of a convenient fiction (the earth as continuous life), but also the fiction of a convenient image (the endless panorama of land as a serene sight), both nearing their end. (Călin Boto)

DATE & LOCATION

Friday 29th of September | 21:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
Cumpără bilet

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Anca Bucur

Anca Bucur is a visual artist and writer, based in Bucharest. She completed her studies in 2018 at the University of Bucharest, with a background in literature and cultural studies. Her work is research-based and spans different registers and media, including objects, video, sound, and text. Lately, she has been focusing on researching the materialities of both land and body in relation to local places and histories. She is interested in the epistemological and political potentiality of the work of art. Anca is also the author of several texts that have appeared in collective volumes, and an editor at frACTalia press.

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