June 1–30, 2025
e-flux Film is pleased to present Teocalli and Coyote, a diptych of films by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, for the June 2025 edition of Staff Picks. Known for their radically material approach to experimental filmmaking, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos works at an intersection of cosmology and militant poetics. Drawing from Indigenous world views and formal strategies of the avant-garde, their films can be seen as cinematic rituals toward emancipation as perceptual unlearning.
Teocalli (2024, 41 minutes)
In the center of the rising Temple, the history, ancestral myths, the infrareal, and the Nahual tradition combine their rhythms into the cyclical life of ritual cinema. Trance and shamanic visions arise into the ancient Teocalli. The Nahual, as an audiovisual entity and ancestral knowledge, is a rhythmic centralizer that provides dance, trance, and ritual. The initiatory and initial entity that, like ancestral knowledge, is neither analyzable nor deconstructable and, therefore, is initial and initiatory, threading part of the images and sounds, which precipitates the ritual, the alliances, the liturgy, and the dance.
Coyote (2023, 16 minutes)
This is the howl, gaze, and agitation of the Coyote into the mountain. The Path of the Coyote. The vision of the Nahual.
The works will stream on e-flux Film from June 1–30, 2025. View them here.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes, and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry. Their radical experimentations on documentary and cinematographic devices produce images, both visual and auditory, that are political possibilities in their own right.
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