synopsis
A participatory document from the Andean-Amazonian foothills challenges the colonial narrative of the jungle as an uninhabited wilderness and the victim of natural resource exploitation. Indigenous peoples are taking an active role, combining the knowledge of their ancestors with modern technologies. They see the rainforest as a place where the human and the non-human, the rational and the mystical, meet.
“Audiovisual images become not only a means of documenting ecological practices, but also a way of thinking through the relationships between scientific knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, and lived experience of the territory.”
biography
Michał Krawczyk is a Polish environmental anthropologist and multimedia artist who studied at the Environmental Futures Research Institute at Griffith University in Australia. He combines documentary and experimental film with ethnography. He directed
Yuyos (2018) and, in collaboration with Giulia Lepori, the eco-meditation
How Does a Bark Feel Like? (2021) and
LAND/SCAPE (2020).
film details
| director: | Michał Krawczyk |
| producer: | Michał Krawczyk |
| photography: | Dayana Bonilla |
| editing: | Wilton Jajoy, Michał Krawczyk |
| sound: | Carolina Lucio |
| sound design: | Carolina Lucio |
contact
Michał Krawczyk
Film at festival
| premiere type: | European Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2026 |
| section: | Short Joy |
| language: | Spanish |
| subtitles: | Czech, English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Michał Krawczyk |
| original title: | Bajo el Dosel |
| country: | Colombia, Poland |
| year: | 2026 |
| running time: | 21 min. |
