Colombia, Andean region, 2019–2023
Documentary essays / artistic research / situated futures
https://hemisphericencounters.ca/projects/pan/
PAN is a series of five documentary essays and an artistic research project developed as part of my doctoral thesis, Futures in the Present Continuous, at the National University of Colombia.
Set across different territories and site-specific locations in the Andean region, particularly in Colombia, the project brings together intangible knowledge keepers, cultural agents, artists, activists, academics, and technical creatives from Latin American and global communities. Through words, gestures, actions, and shared situations, these collaborators — or conspirators — explore how futures are imagined, remembered, invoked, and disputed from situated lives.
The project moves through three historical and affective thresholds. First, the social explosion that began in Colombia on 21 November 2019, a pandemonium of bodies, devils, protests, and political demands taking the streets. Second, the pandemic years of 2020–2021, when confinement interrupted social, cultural, and ritual life, transforming the experience of time itself. Third, the possibility of a panacea: not a cure, but a collective space for imagining other scenarios, desires, questions, and futures.
Across its five chapters, PAN travels from 1647 to 2023, engaging colonial pasts, present ruptures, and future imaginaries. It explores presentism, memory narratives, and the re-signification of colonial histories from the perspective of futures. Rather than treating the future as a distant horizon, the project approaches it as something already active in gestures, rituals, political unrest, ancestral memory, and collective speculation.
In this sense, PAN is a foundational work in the development of Situated Futures and my research into the social life of imagined futures. It asks how futures circulate through bodies, archives, territories, protests, ceremonies, and shared acts of imagination; how they are inherited, contested, performed, and returned to public life.
PAN is an invitation to feel devilishly enthusiastic: a collaborative research process made by many, with many, and through many forms of situated conspiracy.
Direction: ALEX DE LAS HERAS
Research: ALEX DE LAS HERAS & PAOLO VIGNOLO
Research Assistant: SIMÓN ALDANA
Screenplay: ALEX DE LAS HERAS
Editing: ALEJANDRA BERNAL, ALEX DE LAS HERAS
Sound Design: DIANA MARTÍNEZ
Cinematography: ALEJANDRA BERNAL, SANDRO BOZZOLO, MELISSA DÍAZ, GUSTAVO GUTIÉRREZ, ALEX DE LAS HERAS
Executive Producer: ALEX DE LAS HERAS
Production: ~SPECTIVA
Interviews: ALEX DE LAS HERAS & PAOLO VIGNOLO
Participants:
DORIS WAIRA NINA
RODOLFO ANDAUR
BOLIVIA ARAMBURO
MANUEL SEGUNDO ARAMBURO
RAFAEL ARÉVALO
JORGE BAUTISTA
MARCIA CABRERA
VLADIMIR GIRALDO
ALEXANDER MORALES
LA MUJER-CABRA
MARIO OPAZO
BRIGITTE POTENTE
SANTIAGO RIVAS
JIMENA SÁNCHEZ
MARÍA CONSTANZA TOQUICA
ENRIQUE TOMÁS
ANAMARÍA TORRES
MISAEL TORRES
LUISA UNGAR
REGINA VALENCIA
FERNANDA VARÓN
PAOLO VIGNOLO
IVÁN ZAPATA
Locations:
ÁGORA BOGOTÁ: CENTRO DE CONVENCIONES, COLOMBIA
AMAZONAS, COLOMBIA
BARRIO PUNTA DEL ESTE, BUENAVENTURA, COLOMBIA
CARRERA 11, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
CARRERA 8a, PASILLO PRESIDENCIAL, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
ESTACIÓN CULTURAL DE LOS OFICIOS, ECO BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA
MUSEO COLONIAL DE BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
MUSEO SANTA CLARA DE BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
PARQUE NATURAL NACIONAL CHINGAZA, COLOMBIA
PISAGUA, CHILE
IQUIQUE, CHILE
PLAZA DE BOLÍVAR, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
RIOSUCIO, COLOMBIA
SAN VICTORINO, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
SÃO PAULO, BRASIL
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