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Atelier 105, en résidence / September 23, 2025

PULSOS SUBTERRÁNEOS BY ELENA PARDO

Pulsos Subterráneos (Underground Pulses) is a portrait of the landscapes in two different regions of Mexico that each face a struggle for life, territory and culture. Their different experiences are clearly inscribed in the landscapes themselves: on one hand, Capulalpam in Oaxaca has a long history of activism that has allowed them to legally resist the reopening of a mine that was exploited for 200 years and closed in the 1990s. On the other hand, the community of Vetagrande in Zacatecas, where the mines never stopped working since the late 1550s, is now experiencing the sinking of their land and disappearance of their mountains due to recently concessioned large-scale mining.

Elena Pardo is a filmmaker and co-founder of the experimental film laboratory LEC in Mexico City, a space dedicated to the production, instruction and programming of experimental cinema. Since 2007, she collaborates on independent projects of audiovisual instruction for various communities in Mexico. Since 2014, she is involved in the group Audiovisual Archivists of Oaxaca, as part of which she has acquired techniques and strategies paving the way for the creation of the Pardo Collection and the Mexican Archive of Expanded Cinema (AMCE).

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