Cecilia Vicuña Movies
- 1980
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...
- 2018
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...
- 2008
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.
- 2008
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.
- 2015
SemiYa
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Cecilia Vicuña gathers seeds in Colchagua, Chile, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, on May 28, 2015.
- 2011
Quipu Viscera
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- 2021
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...
- 2010
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...
- 2017
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...
- 2011
El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York
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- 1970
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...
- 2007
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...
- 2012
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...
- 2012
Quipu Austral
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- 2017
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...
- 2009
Lápiz en Bote
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The artist precariously films her "basuritas" made from debris as the sea removes them.
- 2014
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...
- 2012
Umbílico
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- 1980
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...
- 1983
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...