Francisco Álvarez Ríos

Through amateur film material, Educación Perdida formulates a portrait of Ecuador through the exercises of power in the act of filming that the film archive proposes. This film is a subjective wandering through the turbulent paths of an unfortunate nation.

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Fluorescent, oxidized, and liquid visions of anonymous bodies traverse an unknown dimension through optical pulsations; insistent blinks in the sea of consciousness. "Pleuma" is an exercise in digital intervention of family films in S8mm format.

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In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.

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The elevated stillness breathes on the path that being fades. Chiaroscuro silence, my face falls like a leaf.

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In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.

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The elevated stillness breathes on the path that being fades. Chiaroscuro silence, my face falls like a leaf.

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