Cecilia Vicuña Movies

  • 1980
    What Is Poetry to You?

    What Is Poetry to You?

    What Is Poetry to You?

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    Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile. Through this...

    What Is Poetry to You?
  • 2018
    Disappeared Quipu

    Disappeared Quipu

    Disappeared Quipu

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    Projected from four sides, utilizing four separate bespoke films to collide into one full piece, over a series of knotted wool strands created by...

    Disappeared Quipu
  • 2008
    Parti Si Pasion

    Parti Si Pasion

    Parti Si Pasion

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    Pigments are scattered across the asphalt in Manhattan, a thread is tied by poet Cecilia Vicuña between the present and the past.

    Parti Si Pasion
  • 2008
    Vaso de Leche

    Vaso de Leche

    Vaso de Leche

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    A 2008 recreation of a 1979 performance gives way to a projection of the slides depicting images from the artist's archive relative to dairy crime.

    Vaso de Leche
  • 2015
    SemiYa

    SemiYa

    SemiYa

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    Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015.

    SemiYa
  • 2011
    Quipu Viscera

    Quipu Viscera

    Quipu Viscera

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    Quipu Viscera
  • 2021
    Death of the Pollinators

    Death of the Pollinators

    Death of the Pollinators

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    A film by Robert Kolodny using poems and sounds of Cecilia Vicuña and auditory landscapes of musician Ricardo Gallo, telling the story of the...

    Death of the Pollinators
  • 2010
    Kon Kon

    Kon Kon

    Kon Kon

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    In this documentary poem, Cecilia Vicuña returns to Con Con, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient...

    Kon Kon
  • 2017
    Night of the Species

    Night of the Species

    Night of the Species

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    Noche de las especies [Night of the Species], a video animation by Robert Kolodny based on Cecilia Vicuña's drawings from the Noche de las...

    Night of the Species
  • 2011
    El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York

    El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York

    El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York

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    El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York
  • 1970
    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues

    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues

    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues

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    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues is a tribute and call to action for linguistic diversity. A 15-minute motion poem (poem on film), each line comes from...

    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
  • 2007
    Yellow Soto

    Yellow Soto

    Yellow Soto

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    A performance lecture on the 1990 sculpture "Penetrable" by Jesús Soto. Poets were asked to respond to the works of artists included in the...

    Yellow Soto
  • 2012
    Río Mapocho

    Río Mapocho

    Río Mapocho

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    Cecilia Vicuña and the Pichimuchina performed a ritual for the waters of the Mapocho River in Santiago Chile. This mighty river had dried up...

    Río Mapocho
  • 2012
    Quipu Austral

    Quipu Austral

    Quipu Austral

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    Quipu Austral
  • 2017
    A Living Knot

    A Living Knot

    A Living Knot

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    This performance takes place at the Puente de Cal y Canto bridge in Santiago de Chile, constructed during colonial times at the site where an Inka...

    A Living Knot
  • 2009
    Lápiz en Bote

    Lápiz en Bote

    Lápiz en Bote

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    The artist precariously films her "basuritas" made from debris as the sea removes them.

    Lápiz en Bote
  • 2014
    Fire Over Water

    Fire Over Water

    Fire Over Water

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    In this "video poem," Vicuña responds to Gasland 2, a 2013 documentary by Josh Fox examining the devastating environmental impact of hydraulic...

    Fire Over Water
  • 2012
    Umbílico

    Umbílico

    Umbílico

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    Umbílico
  • 1980
    Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada

    Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada

    Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada

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    In this performance, filmed in March 1980, Sol y Dar y Dad (Solidarity: To Give and Give Sun), one of the word-splitting, deconstructive poems...

    Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada
  • 1983
    Paracas

    Paracas

    Paracas

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    A three-dimensional animation of a pre Columbian textile. The Paracas textile, 300-100 BC, was found in a tomb in the south coast desert of...

    Paracas