Spectral Geography

A slow, meditative immersion in landscape and ritual, where grief for a lost territory is felt through images and sounds rather than explained.

Directed by

Manuel Mateo Gomez

Overview

The natural landscape of Colombia’s Río Cauca Valley, with its mountains, forests, and rivers, has been reshaped and transformed for colonial hydroelectric production. Uprooted by the pursuit of profit, a community celebrates a fascinating ritual to remember and mourn its territory, contributing its own images and sounds to the film’s visual and audio stream.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, environment, grief, colonialism

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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