The requerimiento was a declaration by the Spanish monarchy of Castile’s divine right to take possession of the New World’s territories and to subjugate the native inhabitants. This 16mm film explores the aesthetics of a mythological time and its archetypical creatures and materialities. Following the trajectories of a serpent and a meteorite’s fragment, the film develops an interwoven narration questioning human and nonhuman alterities in different epochs and cultures.
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Andrea Bordoli
Andrea Bordoli has a background in Visual Anthropology (MA, University of Manchester), Visual Arts – Cinema (BFA, HEAD – Genève), and Anthropology and Philosophy (BA, Neuchâtel University). Combining anthropological research and audiovisual media practice, his work explores human-environment relationships and multispecies entanglements in sensitive and remote territorial ecologies. His works have been presented in academic settings and exhibited in film festivals and art spaces nationally and internationally.