The River Escapes

Eduardo Makoszay Mayén / Mexico, Brazil / 2019 / International Premiere / 9 min.

synopsis

An essay on exploitation of homes of native inhabitants and the behaviour of colonists breaks out into an anti-capitalist political pamphlet resulting in divergent horizontal and vertical motifs of a critical analysis of liberal cosmopolitan elites toward life space as a single-use, expandable commodity, contradicting its displaceable character.

"To build other worlds, one needs not to abandon western mind-structure but to transduce it with local, specific and ancient notions. This film is the beginning of a quest towards that realization." E. Makoszay Mayén

biography

Mexican-born independent artist Eduardo Makoszay Mayén (1992) finished filmmaking studies at university in Mexico City. His authorial projects are positioned on the frontier of documentary and science fiction film. He has participated in many workshops and festivals including Jihlava IDFF where his film Wind Shaped Rocks (2017) was screened.