Carolina Montejo
Film Installation
November 18 2023
Art Produce Cooler Room
Reception:
Saturday, November 18th 5-7pm
"My art practice is informed by future and ancestry, intellectual inquiry, and justice. For the past decade, I have been concerned with diverse forms of material, mental, and hybrid spaces that tend to point to a world where oppressive systems damage our communities, the environment, and the potential for renewal. Accepting my participation in such systems while navigating unconformity is at the center of my filmmaking. The experimental narratives that result as a product of my background in communications and visual art oscillate between analysis, storytelling, and critique, and constantly seek to re-establish broken links between life forms. Providing a moment for contemplation, deep thought, and emotional exploration guides the intention of my creative process."
Film Installation
November 18 2023
Art Produce Cooler Room
Reception:
Saturday, November 18th 5-7pm
"My art practice is informed by future and ancestry, intellectual inquiry, and justice. For the past decade, I have been concerned with diverse forms of material, mental, and hybrid spaces that tend to point to a world where oppressive systems damage our communities, the environment, and the potential for renewal. Accepting my participation in such systems while navigating unconformity is at the center of my filmmaking. The experimental narratives that result as a product of my background in communications and visual art oscillate between analysis, storytelling, and critique, and constantly seek to re-establish broken links between life forms. Providing a moment for contemplation, deep thought, and emotional exploration guides the intention of my creative process."
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Rizomas (2021)
On display in the University Avenue windows: 3-channel silent video installation with subtitles This iteration of Rizomas includes the sections: Welcome to the Ecofeminist System, Virtual Ecology, and Under a Green Cloak. Rizomas is an experimental documentary that travels through diverse imaginaries, memories, and realities of nature and their overlap between plant, human, and animal existence. The storyline shifts between a series of intimate documentations, a political manifesto, a 3D animated utopia, a collaboration with a network of urban farmers, as well as a dance sequence shot in 16mm. |
Eco, Fantasía, Premonición (2023)
On display in the Cooler Room: Single-channel screening Eco, Fantasía, Premonición (Echo, Fantasy, premonition) is a series of short films that bridge ecological fears and 21st-century climate and social realities with intimacy, scientific prediction, and the possibility to act on our developing future. |
About the Artist
Carolina Montejo is a Colombian-American filmmaker and educator based in San Diego, California. Her films center on ecological relations between life forms, as well as notions of community and justice that are told through intimate and experimental narratives. Common topics in her films and video installations include global warming, planetary preservation, and the responsibility and potential of urban space. She has a BA in Communications from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego. Montejo’s films have been an official selection for the Berlin International Art Film Festival, the Montreal Independent Film Festival, and the San Diego Environmental Film Festival. She is a film studies lecturer at the University of San Diego (USD), an Environmental studies lecturer at UC San Diego, and Creative Director of Telepathine Studio.
Follow on Instagram @caro_montejo_art
Carolina Montejo is a Colombian-American filmmaker and educator based in San Diego, California. Her films center on ecological relations between life forms, as well as notions of community and justice that are told through intimate and experimental narratives. Common topics in her films and video installations include global warming, planetary preservation, and the responsibility and potential of urban space. She has a BA in Communications from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego. Montejo’s films have been an official selection for the Berlin International Art Film Festival, the Montreal Independent Film Festival, and the San Diego Environmental Film Festival. She is a film studies lecturer at the University of San Diego (USD), an Environmental studies lecturer at UC San Diego, and Creative Director of Telepathine Studio.
Follow on Instagram @caro_montejo_art
