Seeds

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes, and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry. The collective creates vivid and sparking films and videos of protests and labor, earth and sky in explosions of sounds and images that work toward decolonizing the ways of seeing the world. Often in experimental film, heavy-handed soundtracks can often overwhelm the force of the visual; but the work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos integrates bold sonic choices with image in a pure and purposeful unification that can be, at times, sublime.

There were two revolutionary paradigms within the audiovisual that reinforced our practical, collective resolution: The first was the dispersion, proliferation and germination of the pieces via digital platforms (at first on Twitter), which generated alongside it an intermittence in the relationship to the tyranny exercised by cultural, academic and institutional bureaucracy. And the second, anonymity in the audiovisual production and dispersion. And so, our position as a cinematographic collective involves accenting the inherent contradictions in the multiple systems of images - collapsing narrative constructs and aristocratic hierarchies - as well as producing radically new methodologies in order to retroactively reevaluate and modify the iconographic, sound and audiovisual legacy and tradition.