Upriver / Río Arriba

Upriver is a two-channel film that follows a journey up the Putumayo River in the Colombian Pan Amazon region, revealing a vertical landscape with planetary resonance where indigenous resistance, trees, soils, clouds, light, and shadow inter-exist. Departing from the Siona territory in the lower Amazon at 300 M.A.S.L to the Quillacinga territory in the highlands of the Colombian Andes at 3000 M.A.S.L, this film takes the viewer along a meandering river that cuts across territories in dispute. It is here where overlapping sovereignties emerge and extractive industries clash with human and non-human communities resisting violence across this vertical axis of power and occupation.

Research and development of this project has been possible through a Practice-Based PhD position with ECAM: European Center for Art, Design and Media Based Research at the Basel Art Academy HGK (Switzerland) in cooperation with the University of Arts Linz (Austria) 2017 – 2020

Interview With Julio Fierro: Why the Putumayo?

In this film, geologists and professor Julio Fierro from Colombia’s National University discusses the relevance of the Putumayo as a unique ecosystem along the Ecuadorian geo-zone.  

 

Research and development of this project has been possible through a Practice-Based PhD position with ECAM: European Center for Art, Design and Media Based Research at the Basel Art Academy HGK (Switzerland) in cooperation with the University of Arts Linz (Austria) 2017 – 2020

Research and development of this project has been possible through a Practice-Based PhD position with ECAM: European Center for Art, Design and Media Based Research at the Basel Art Academy HGK (Switzerland) in cooperation with the University of Arts Linz (Austria) 2017 – 2020