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Manipulation: Control of the body through disciplinary methods ensures productivity and alienation. The power of the body is diminished politically under disciplinary systems, whose mechanisms are as Foucault “calculated manipulation of its elements, gestures, and their behavior.” Discipline being a tool of shaping bodies under obedience and docillity. From April 25 to June 3 I proposed to myself to take on a performance focusing on docility as recalled daily through my hand where I wrote ‘I lack discipline’. Over the days that followed I reaffirmed my satisfaction with being undisciplined so I decided to complete the performnace. Manipulation is the act of negation of that phrase and docility is action, using this concept one of my hands imposes an almost masturbatory force on the other hand.

Four children play secretly near a field known for the legend that "the one who enter never come back".

Images of Gaucin captured in February 2019.

In this documentary, the Pacha Queer movement, a dissident, rebel, counter-cultural, and “self-festive” community based in Quito, Ecuador, uses performance art to campaign for social, political, and sexual liberation.

During the confinement of a global pandemic an astronaut talks to his couple about love, death and loneliness.

The arrival of a virus came to show how vulnerable we are, when we meet with the absence. An imposed loneliness, which causes desolation in the hearts that they are waiting for a yesterday to return, and facing the uncertainty of tomorrow. "Alone" is the transpolation of a feeling in which to say "any time the past could have been better ”. Missing has become a habit with the one that we are going to have to learn to live together.

A homosexual couple arrives in Mexico City, after fleeing Jamaica where they were imprisoned for their sexual orientation. At the same time, a trans refugee from Honduras embarks on an odyssey to the United States where they will be abducted by a drug cartel and will have problems with Central American gangs due to their gender identity. The two stories intersect in a house in Mexico City that becomes an oasis in a hostile world.

The aisles of a street market in Asunción, a lonely slot machine parlor and a space that opens up to the uncertain. Now is when?

Fifteen locations are the stage where fifteen performers, among artists, poets, students etc., one per location, perform a fragment of “Wild Cathedral”, a poem by the mythical Ecuadorian poet César Dávila Andrade. A sum of portraits where the poem becomes a bridge to access the character and his respective surroundings. The poem as a regulating and critical voice between the character and the different territorialities.

Two women navigate life and death at sea in a remote Chilean fishing village.

Three twelve year old girls protagonize a coming of age that takes place in a summer camp. After a kiss, that seems like a playful act, Ana begins to discover an undeniable feeling of attraction for Carlota, her best friend. Julia, motivated by teenage envy, annoys and pressures Ana to confess her feelings for Carlota.

This documentary produced by Aldarte, a Centre for LGBTI Advice and Documentation, and financed by the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council aims to collate and share the main findings of the research study entitled “Strategies for tackling hate crimes due to sexual orientation and gender identity – an overview” and so explore the reality experienced by LGBTI people in different contexts. This work tries to provide a comprehensive view of SOGI hate crimes, emphasising survival actions, confrontation mechanisms and transformation strategies forged from the personal and collective experience of participant.

“Cake and Candle” is part of the “Quarantine” series we decided to carry out during this period as a way to keep creative, active and have fun. All parts are developed on the same wall of Isabel’s studio. This action is No. 23 of this series of video performances mivi performed daily. Today we celebrate Llorch’s birthday, referring to some of the safety measures recommended in this pandemic: distancing and masks … This makes the act supposedly cheerful since blowing birthday candles becomes almost impossible, absurd and, above all, sad. This series follows the line of work that Isabel has been developing since 2016, making simple, minimal, everyday and absurd actions around one minute in duration, and making use of everyday materials. The main difference lies in that in this case the frequency is daily, rather than weekly, as well as being carried out collaboratively with fellow collaboartors Llorch Talavera.

Rosita and Antonio are a couple of shamans who receive visitors from all over the world. During certain times of the year their home is transformed into a small center of natural medicine. Together with their large family, they receive adventurers in search of healing, self-knowledge and psychedelic experiences.

Roque was disoriented. They told him that he was a human being and that he could become a mermaid. He didn't understand why it was one thing that had to become another. Also forever! One thing or the other. Black or white. Meat or fish. Boy or girl. Human or mermaid ... As if there were only two options! Can't a decision also be that you don't want to make a decision?

Eva and María are nuns and teachers in a strict catholic school. An unfortunate comment will bring negative consequences for Eva. María, the newcomer, is trying to get adapted to her new life.

You become paranoid quickly during a pandemic.

One summer day the animals of the forest are invited to a party. They eat a ton of cake and dance all night long. When the party is over they find that all of the trees they use for shelter and food are gone. Strange creatures have stolen their homes, so they decide to go search for them.

This tape is about a girl who seeks to free herself, the triangles represent Nazism The visual video tries to give another vision of reality from the purest freedom.

Images and stories from the early years of LGBTIQ+ activism in Paraguay until today, in the middle of the pandemic. It's a quest that tries to generate audiovisual memory with voices from the main players of local activism and their accurate analysis of human rights and the political situation in Paraguay.

A father and son cross the Strait in search of saving Taha's fragile life. Between memories and uncertainty, they learn to survive in a hospital room.

During the peace negotiations in Colombia, a troop of women and men found themselves in the midst of uncertainty to dream of life without weapons. They wander between their loves, their fears, between doubts because Peace also produces fear. This guerrilla command reveals the intimacy of human beings who shudder at the possibility of other winds, some will also be overwhelming and uncontrollable.

In the beginning, there were caves. Or maybe not. But the caves in Mónica Naranjo Uribe’s work seem to have been observing us for a lifetime; waiting for someone to find them and to feel the revelation that we believe can only be achieved through the hardest, deepest and most arcane states of nature.

Erick writes unanswered text messages to Sandra while Satan watches him. That night Satan leaves a ring on Erick's door. The next morning Erick checks Sandra's cell phone, where he finds a conversation that makes him suspect a meeting that will take place that same day.

The singer and songwriter Florencia Núñez is from Rocha, a coastal department in southeastern Uruguay. Her first compositions took place at her parents' house, in the classes she shared with the composer Enrique Cabrera, or on the shores of the ocean when she spent the summer in Costa Azul, her usual beach town. Today, she lives in Montevideo, she listens to her songs and wonders: what is the origin of all these melodies? This film is her desire to relive that music that made her grow. A tribute to the music of her department through the reinterpretation of five songs that marked her songbook. With that map in mind, Florencia goes out in search of answers in conversations with authors, interpreters or actors from the Rochense scene who were witnesses or protagonists of the construction of the local folk. A journey through the essence of a department that traces a route between melodies and landscapes, poetry and culture, and voices and roots.

What if you never saw it rain?

Arístides died of a gunshot when he was 19 years old, while he was doing his Military Service in the Cuban Navy. He was shot in the chest at close range by the soldier who was supposed to relieve him in duty, with a Makarov PM handgun made in USSR. There are no images of him; just a letter he wrote to his sister a few hours before dying, whose reply never came to be.

It can be said that Western Sahara is a limbo: it is the largest territory on the planet still to be decolonised, currently under Moroccan occupation since 1975 and waiting endlessly for its self-determination. In this film we will learn about the history of the oppression and resistance of the Sahrawi people, but also about its beauty and richness from the visual poetry, the sounds that evoke the Sahara and the inter-generational story of the protagonists in this history. A project promoted by the Andalusian organisations Nomadocs and Sahara Acción Granada that aims to make a forgotten and silenced testimony visible.

"Ceguera Inducida" (Induced Blindness) is a retrospective upon childhood and a collective memory which seems to be endangered by the growth of extreme right-wing parties in South America. Yesterday, far away from home, the distance seemed to shape and re-signify my infancy and the memories arising from the Uruguayan worst economic crisis at the beginning of this century. Today, these words seem to prevail and the melancholy continues to invade. The second voice of the film belongs to Jorge Luis Batlle, ex-president of the Republic (2000-2005) during a visit to the United States.

The filmmaking team returns to the port of San Antonio, their hometown, to learn more about a UFO sighting that occurred in the mid-1980s. This search is proposed as an urban tour through the port city, capturing various experiences around this event. This will finally make the investigation take a revealing turn.

A garden filmed in San Sebastián-Donostia. It is also a conversation between two strangers, or between two Google bots. It could just as easily be a mandarin, or whatever happens during a chance, imaginary encounter with a stranger. It is, above all, an impossible game with no beginning and no end.

Fumito Fujikawa, Japanese director, approaches the Supa Layme family on the Arequipa puna (4700 meters above sea level), coexists with them, brings together their daily lives and space while the bond is made.

A short documentary depicting the story of young transgender boy Ekai Lersundi, who took his own life in 2018 after struggling with the bureaucracy surrounding hormone replacement therapy assignment.

Between memories and ramblings, the camera is turned on to film things that may later make sense. Record of an incessant search for the understanding of light in a documental style.

Santiago de Chile at the center of a pandemic. A couple spends 35 days locked up at home with too much time to think. There are times when the free subject is a problem and the limitations become a space of freedom.

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community

At the funeral of her eldest son whom she hasn't seen in years, a catholic mother discovers that she is transgender, and refuses to bury her as a woman.

Relámpago Negro is a professional wrestler who lived in his own flesh the golden age of wrestling in Guatemala. 40 years later everything has changed, except his passion for the sport. Relámpago Negro tells us how his passion leads him to keep wrestling alive after so long, building a legacy for professional wrestling until this day.

One night. Three women. Three generations. A grandmother, a mother and a daughter are about to lose Lila, the pet that has joined them for the past 20 years. This will expose their unresolved conflicts: their fears, their mistakes, their secrets... And how much they need each other. Tonight, they not only face a bitter farewell, but the distance that had separated them until now, and they will discover if they are able to walk that path... Or if they will have to keep walking alone.

A retrospective (2010-2020) on authentic gamechangers in rap with Madrid as a reference point. With the testimonies of Israel B (Corredores de Bloque), Jerv.AGZ, Fabianni, I - Ace and Kigo (Agorazein), Elio Toffana, Dano, Kael and Cabal (Ziontifik), El Coleta, Miguel Grimaldo (Urano Players) and Yako Muñoz.

The memories of an atypical family, in a typical and conventional place of Medellin-Colombia, make a portrait of the last 50 years of violence in the country. These memories, narrated in first person by the documentary filmmaker, range from the emergence of the M-19 guerrilla group in 1970 to the votes in the plebiscite for peace, the result of negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group in 2016. The atypical family is made up of a conservative father who was the mayor of Medellín and a mother who is an academic, intellectual, and researcher of violence, threatened with death and exiled as a result of her ideas and research. The typical place, is a social and sports club of the elite of Medellín about to turn 100 years, and from where the political destinies of the whole country are still decided.

This video is an approximation to represent in a poetic way, how I feel inside during this period of estrangement and shelter, in which we’ve had to resort more frequently to social networks and to digital media in general to have contact with nuestrxs queridxs and the world. This hyper connectivity has caused an increase in the content of information we receive and has personally kept me more time in front of a screen. In the video I use material from my Instagram feed and turn to the body to simulate the interaction I have with a mobile device during the day, recreating positions in which I find myself consuming information without a break.

This poetic look at political protest in Puerto Rico offers an intimate and empowering perspective on the struggle for recognition and self-determination.

It is the story of a deaf girl in Shanghai. Despite the hectic pace of the city, she still feels a strong sense of loneliness. Although there are multiple parties and opportunities to meet new faces, she still feels unique in the crowd. At the end of the film they explain that many people who suffer from deafness are diagnosed with depression or anxiety. The girl represents all those millions of beings in the world that are not included.