Shamanic Materialism: Films by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, February 24 at 7pm for Shamanic Materialism, a screening of twelve films by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, selected by the Collective in connection with their manifesto “Shamanic Materialism: 77 Theses on the Audiovisual,” recently published on e-flux Film Notes, which proposes a cosmopolitical way of making and thinking the audiovisual.

In “Shamanic Materialism,” Los Ingrávidos describe a cinema of sensory intervention and trance that does not seek to explain the world for an already-administered spectator-population, but instead operates on perception itself, reactivating ancestral temporality and building what they call parallel sensory and poetic structures inside existing structures. The program ranges from works that treat image and sound as contested documents of the present to ritual compositions in which natural forces, gods, and animal presences become agents of montage. Across these registers, films function as an instrument of burial and exhumation, reorganizing images and sounds through rupture and repetition.

Films

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Impresiones para una máquina de luz y sonido (Impressions for a Light and Sound Machine) (2014, 6 min 43 sec)
A woman delivers a painful, relentless speech whose words become “permanent impressions” in collective memory, as her voice is staged as an assault on an old Mexican film, tearing the celluloid image toward disappearance.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Coyolxauhqui (2017, 9 min 26 sec)
The film recasts the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, the Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Tonalli (2021, 16 min 19 sec)
Drawing on the ancient Nahuatl concept of the animating soul or life force, Tonalli engages the ritualistic powers of the cinema, summoning fire, flowers, and many moons into a frenetic and mesmerizing in-camera collage. Here, amid thickly swirling images and textured abstractions, the gods of creation and fertility manifest, dissolving into iridescent colors and dense, corporeal rhythms.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, After América (2021, 7 min 17 sec)
These are the western lands of the mind. The western tracks in the land. The western landscapes of our time. The wasted times of our lives. So is the rest of the Capitalocene civilization.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Targets (2025, 1 min 12 sec)
We have been projected from our life-world into the abstract space-time of Capital.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Pilgrims Cartel / Unclassified (2025, 1 min 17 sec)
A one-minute entry from the Hauntology Film Archives, a series described as “ghostly and abstracted representations of political and physical landscapes.”

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Brussels (2024, 3 min)
Condemn the influence of colonial campaign. Part of the Hauntology Film Archives series.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Lixiviation (2026, 2 min 05 sec)
Ghostly and abstracted representations of political and physical landscapes. Part of Hauntology Film Archives.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Abecedario / B (2014, 4 min 54 sec)
An audiovisual experience of the current Mexican war.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Aria 68 (2023, 3 min 54 sec)
Part of the Paraconsistent sequence series, whose works are defined by contradictions of time and place and by reorganizations of past, present, and future.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, El nido del sol (2021, 5 min 14 sec)
In the nest of the sun, Xolotl, Huitzilin and Xochitl meet to recover the dance of radiation, whose colorful heat stirs the new fire of their cosmic dance. Part of the Film Tonalli.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Coyote (2023, 15 min 49 sec)
This is the howl, gaze, and agitation of the Coyote into the mountain. The Path of the Coyote.

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