Esto de Juntar Flores (2024)

Digital Video with sound, 11:31

Esto de juntar flores is a short film (11 min) that explores the love for flowers and the desire to collect them, looking at the Dutch tulip industry expansion into Chile. Shot in the Flowering Desert in Chile, and Lisse and Hoorn in the Netherlands, the film questions how certain Dutch colonial values persist to this day through neoliberal extractivist practices, and the work reflects on the experience of the in-between of displacement guided by long distance conversations with my father.

CREDITS

Produced, Shot, and Edited by Catalina Reyes Navarro / Sound Design and Editing by Constanza Castagnet / Voice by Juan Reyes and Catalina Reyes Navarro / Color Grading by Mateo Vega Title / Design by Jerrold Saija / Installation design by Montserrat Fonseca

Special thanks to Het Cultuurfonds, Van der Gulik Tulpen, Cines en el Borde, Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago and B3 HessenLab.