PULSOS SUBTERRÁNEOS

There is surface and there is depth, and the two are inseparably linked. Plants, fungi, and people descend underground in search of a rare resource. In her 16mm film and sound multilog, Elena Pardo opens a space for the collective experience of life, culture, resistance, and territorial defense within the communities of Zacatecas (Vetagrande) and Oaxaca (Calpulálpam), where mining has long shaped — and continues to threaten — everyday existence. Working in these regions since 2012, she returns to deepen her artistic, pedagogical, and research practice.

Elena Pardo is a Mexican experimental and documentary filmmaker whose work explores the possibilities of photochemical film across shooting, laboratory, and projection contexts. Since 2005 she has been part of the collective Trinchera Ensamble, dedicated to expanded cinema. In 2013 she co-founded the Experimental Film Lab (LEC, Laboratorio Experimental de Cine) in Mexico City, which she continues to direct, alongside her involvement in community-based creative and educational projects in Oaxaca. Her films and performances have been presented at international festivals worldwide.

Image: Elena Pardo
Sound: Georgy Bagdasarov and Tomáš Procházka