Azucena Losana

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Aug 15, 2024
The most transcendent and controversial event since the invention of the seventh art: the disappearance of photographic film. What for many people seems to be simply the result of technological evolution, brings with it paradoxes and contradictions that endanger photographic film heritage and accelerate its deterioration.
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Tigre del Carbón
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Tigre del Carbón

Mar 19, 2022
An imaginary place on the map of affections, where hawthorn, orange and plum trees coexist. An island and a valley which climbs stairs of all ages.
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Jan 01, 2020

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"Fragments of a few orphan films abandoned in a lab." (the8fest)
La cuarta plantación
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La cuarta plantación

Sep 18, 2021
During the enhancement of the audiovisual heritage of the Embassy of Mexico in Argentina we found promotional tourist material in different media. I chose some 16mm film titles published 1968–72. At that time, the National Tourism Office commissioned and distributed these short films emphasizing modernity and comfort in contrast to the exotic and almost pristine nature of our tourist destinations. This new wave of mass tourism to underdeveloped countries, which would become one of the main sources of income for Mexico and the Caribbean, was what the Cuban historian Manuel Moreno Fraginals called “the fourth plantation,” alluding to economic practices of monoculture and neocolonialism. This is a compilation of the most interesting moments to review the speeches of that time.
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Primitiva
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Primitiva

Jun 06, 2023
From the series "Bichos de Luz", this is the portrait of Doña Vivi, maker and alchemist of the original light offered to the souls who come to visit every year. This is her home and also a ceremonial beeswax candle factory in Teotitlán, Oaxaca.
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Primitiva
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Primitiva

Jun 06, 2023
From the series "Bichos de Luz", this is the portrait of Doña Vivi, maker and alchemist of the original light offered to the souls who come to visit every year. This is her home and also a ceremonial beeswax candle factory in Teotitlán, Oaxaca.
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Feriado
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Feriado

Nov 10, 2022
Electromagnetic landscapes and marginal poetry on a holiday.
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Feriado
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Feriado

Nov 10, 2022
Electromagnetic landscapes and marginal poetry on a holiday.
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Nanacatepec
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Nanacatepec

Feb 20, 2024
A 16mm film performance draws inspiration from the Nanacatepec, a rock traversed by a network that extends without a defined shape. Its fruits, in the form of mushrooms, serve as creators and transformers of everything in the world.
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El guaraches
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El guaraches

Feb 02, 2013
“El guaraches” (leather sandals) is the nickname of the owner of this traditional mezcalería and handmade-sandal shop in Cuicatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico. From his collection of handcrafted mezcal bottles made by Oaxacan families, we chose two of the “Porn” collection to go !
El guaraches
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El guaraches

Feb 02, 2013
“El guaraches” (leather sandals) is the nickname of the owner of this traditional mezcalería and handmade-sandal shop in Cuicatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico. From his collection of handcrafted mezcal bottles made by Oaxacan families, we chose two of the “Porn” collection to go !
At Your Heels
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At Your Heels

May 18, 2017
"In a recurrent dream I keep on following your steps, always at your heels." A handicraft film, a travel journal where the lead character is the one behind the camera pulling the trigger regularly and composing the frame’s area and duration.
Colibrí
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Colibrí

Apr 12, 2013
Performance with live audio equalization.
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Kapry
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Kapry

May 14, 2015
Roaming through the traditional Christmas stands of live carp fish on the street of Prague.
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Intermission
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Intermission

Sep 18, 2014
This is the filmic portrait of Daniel Vicinos, one of the most characteristic figures of Argentina's film industry: inventor, technician, collector, ironwork lover, but above all, in love with cinema.
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May 14, 2015

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The biggest, most populated, and frantic city in South America. While Cariocas are like tropical birds, Paulistas are like frenetic ants. Distances are longer and they're always in a hurry. A busy journey through this beautiful Brazilian beast which cannot help but beating irregularly.
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Develar
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Develar

Aug 19, 2016
Film loops with overlapping chromatic density and textures achieved with photochemical development experiments.
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Gardel
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Gardel

Aug 12, 2016
Letraset typeset intervention and editing on the projection copy of the film Cuesta Abajo, by Louis J. Gasnier, 1934.
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Neón
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Neón

Apr 14, 2016
This is the portrait of Cesar, the heir to a tradition of neon lights that ruled in Buenos Aires' marquees and now resists obsolescence.
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Siesta
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Siesta

Aug 17, 2018
During the evening, between 15:00 and 17:00 all of Valparaíso's hills appear almost motionless.
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Tierras del Mar
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Tierras del Mar

Oct 08, 2019
With carpenters and fishermen on the coast of Valparaíso, Leonel Vasquez built a boat/sound installation following the almost extinct tradition of the craft wooden boats that still sail these waters. Through on-board wooden speakers, fishermen tell the stories of their livelihoods.
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Valle De Lobos
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Valle De Lobos

Jun 13, 2018
In the winter, the Valley of Wolves, the southern most of America, becomes a uniform white surface. The Emerald Lagoon freezes and becomes invisible. It is possible to follow some signs, but the infallible technique is to follow our local guide.
Kapry
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Kapry

May 14, 2015
Roaming through the traditional Christmas stands of live carp fish on the street of Prague.
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Troco
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Troco

Oct 15, 2019
The filmic support as plastic material is an investigation that in this performance proposes the formal study of perforation and that of the human face as representation, chromatic configuration and target of electronic detectors.
Corbusierhaus
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Corbusierhaus

Jul 30, 2020
In 1958, Le Corbusier designed the Corbusierhaus in Berlin. A housing unit surrounded with green areas with capacity for 2,000 people. This is a study of the color and movement in the building’s common areas. Almost dotting exercise, hyperkinetic but also hyperalert -doors, hallways, murals, numbers, locks, its exterior and emergency spaces. Everything that could have been ignored is instead revitalized at a pace that leaves the museum trail behind in order to focus on the day-by-day, in the ignored vigor of the simple everyday space. And here appears happy formalism, charmed by the corners (of the buildings and of Le Corbusier’s own work), that wants to share that same joy and that same demystification. JMD
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La hora decisiva
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La hora decisiva

Aug 18, 2020
In La hora decisiva, Azucena captures, in the midst Mexican Revolution celebrations that happened in November 2019, an improvised street photography set, with people wearing traditional garments being photographed in an elegant armchair with a rifle in their hands, imitating the photographic records of the time. Full of humor, joy and cotillón, Losana comments that, given all the multiple protests that were taking place on the continent at that time, she wondered what Zapata would have thought of our revolutions.
Tres bocetos de casa
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Tres bocetos de casa

Sep 22, 2020
This is a series of studies filmed in 8 and 16mm about how self-exile develops a familiar and foreign perception about home.
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Tres bocetos de casa
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Tres bocetos de casa

Sep 22, 2020
This is a series of studies filmed in 8 and 16mm about how self-exile develops a familiar and foreign perception about home.
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Pantano
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Pantano

Oct 05, 2020
In the rainy season, after several days of downpours and gusty winds, calm finally arrives. The animals leave their burrows to dry out and mushroom collection begins. Some are cut for consumption while others remain attached to the surfaces.
Mexican Erotica
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Mexican Erotica

Jul 10, 2022
Mexican Erotica is a collective reappropriation film that explores sex and eroticism from various artistic and aesthetic points of view. A journey of textures, sensations and unmissable pleasures.