barrunto is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to a bodily unrest, an omen or a forecast sensed via signals present in the environment (such as when rain is forecast through aches and pains or when ants emerge anticipating an earthquake); a way of thinking with surface and subconscious, underfoot and underground. barrunto is a speculative narrative that takes place in a future of the past, in a present ruptured now. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance across diasporic distance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed; in sites of displacement, nuclear contamination, and military occupation from Scotland to Puerto Rico; from the bottom of the ocean to the planet Uranus.
This film was made in collaboration with Shanti Lalita, Claude Nouk, Alicia Matthews, Harry Josephine Giles, Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Sharif Elsabagh y muchxs más. It is a Margaret Tait Award 2020 commission with support from Lux Scotland and Creative Scotland.
*Wearing a mask will be required to attend this event. As an act of collective care, we are making masks required for this specific event in consideration of our immunocompromised guests.
A Q&A with Emilia Beatriz will follow the screening.
Third Horizon Film Festival is honored to co-present the US premiere of barrunto with Prismatic Ground.
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Emilia Beatriz is an artist, access-worker, and beekeeper-in-study. Their films weave historical and speculative narratives, centering sensorial/poetic storytelling, dreaming and action, grounded in conversation, oral history, and community archiving. They use film, photography, text, sound, and performance to witness and build embodied stories of presence and resistance. barrunto is their first feature film.
