The Future Meets the Past: Rock Bottom Rise by Verne Silva – Advertisements

We are excited about the announcement The future faces the pastthe thirteenth online show in Cosmos Cinema Educational program as part of the 14th Shanghai Biennale. We present to you this week Rock Bottom Raiser (2021, 70 minutes), film by Fern sylva Which will be available until February 17th on Cosmos Cinema website.

Presented in the context of the 14th Shanghai Biennale's focus on indigenous cosmology and alternative futures, this experimental documentary explores humans' relationship with nature in Hawaii, raising awareness of how the planned construction of a 30-meter telescope on Mauna Kea, the archipelago. Sacred Mountain, affecting indigenous communities.

Inspired by ancestral interpretations of the interconnectedness of humankind, nature and the universe, Rock Bottom Raiser It is a vibrant essay film inspired by material from geology, ethnography and astronomy. A psychedelic tour of the islands, the film jumps from one image to another and mixes voiceovers with different scenes. Through these techniques, he challenges viewers to consider the ways in which science can be a colonizing force, further marginalizing Native Hawaiians and their traditional methods of research while helping to criminalize their dissent.

The film is available to watch until February 17 cosmoscinema.art.

the Cosmos Cinema The website is where the history of cinema excavated in weekly screenings at Power Station of Art meets the moving image works of artists represented in the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Each week, in accordance with one of the nine thematic sections that make it up Cosmos Cinema, a selected work of moving images from one artist is presented online with new contextual information. the Cosmos Cinema The website features works by artists including Itziar Barrio, Yin-Ju Chen, Saudat Ismayilova, Dimantas Narkevicius, Liu Chen, Maha Mamoun, Agnieszka Polska, Raqs Media Collective, Hu Rui An, Liu Yujia, He Ziq, Giulietta Aranda, Jakob Storach, and Anna . Lunakova, Zhou Xiaohu, among many others.

Cosmos Cinema The online tutorial and platform are made possible by .ART Registry.

It is also co-sponsored by the AESOP and Humanities Research Center, Department of Arts and Humanities, and DKUNST Arts on Duke University's Kunshan Campus.