Luciana Decker Orozco (Bolivia, 1993) is a filmmaker and artist. She studied anthropology at UCB (Bolivia) and completed an MFA in Film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on a scholarship. Currently, she delves into the spectral essence of places, objects, and matter through intimate interactions and meticulous observation. She engages in this process by both revealing and concealing her presence, investigating the interstitial spaces where mediation and relationships unfold. Her films have screened at festivals widely. In 2024, she was awarded an artist residency at Gasworks (England).
A journey to the underworld begins within our own entrails, shaped by the flesh we consume and the softened crumbs moistened by the saliva of mothers. This film explores the becoming of different times, from the intimate rhythm of digestion to the vast expanse of geological eras: stalagmites formed over millennia, fossilized dinosaur tracks, and the echoes of primordial movements, akin to growling. The film is inspired by the chapter “Puro Andar” from El Pez de Oro by Gamaliel Churata, which states that “we all carry the dead alive; that the dead live.”
Puro Andar will play as part of the Shorts Block: Why Does the Air Tremble?
