The Winged Stone (2023)

Colectivo los Ingrávidos

The Winged Stone, Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Mexico, S8mm > digital, 9.5 min, 2023

Through the floating garden, into the mountain of signs and chants, arises the path of the winged stone. A stone that used to be a fossil. A ritual and liturgical dimension of the fossil. The poetic dimension of paleontology.

Angle of incidence / being matter ignited / a curve having rotation in three dimensions / uniting of three astral planes corresponding to a serpent synthesis—Cecil Taylor

Streaming Details

This film is available to stream globally.

Program Partners

This film is co-presented with Mothlight Microcinema and San Francisco Cinematheque.

Image credits: all artworks, portraits, and stills courtesy of the artists © Colectivo los Ingrávidos.

About the artist

Colectivo los Ingrávidos (Mexico) was founded in Tehuacán, Mexico, 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 analogue mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry. They have created more than 300 films since 2013 with screenings at venues worldwide including Bienal de la Imagen Movimiento, Whitney Biennial, FICUNAM, Flaherty Film Seminar, Media City Film Festival, Los Angeles Filmforum, Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, ICA London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Their films have won honourable mentions from International Film Festival Belo Horizonte and Media City Film Festival, a Kodak Award from Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, and a Marian McMahon Award from Images Film Festival, among other accolades. Their poetry collection Solares was published by Evidence Press (2018) and their polemic incantation Thesis on the Audiovisual is forthcoming. They live and work in Tehuacán, Mexico.