Defiant Relationalities: a Catrileo+Carrión Community Screening

These series of experimental videos (2016-2022) collect a generative refusal practice using diverse media languages to carve out a space of flourishment for Indigenous epupillan (two-spirit) existence. As a way of sharing our communal concerns in the face of heteropatriarchy and colonialism/coloniality in Chile, we offer these videos as a ceremonial continuum that uses media to deflect pain and heal diverse layers of violence that affect our Mapuche and Chilean communities.

Shot, edited and post-produced during different moments, these videos offer a panoramic of how the Catrileo+Carrión Community materializes Indigenous Mapuche epupillan (two-spirit) relationality with history, land, water, weaving, storytelling, and love.

BIO Catrileo+Carrión Community: We are queer/trans/nonbinary Indigenous epupillan (two-spirit) beings who work articulating generative spaces of reciprocity and relationality. We honor the land and our ancestors through ceremonies materialized in our audiovisual, textile, editorial, curatorial, and community practices. We reside divided between Pikunmapu/Qullasuyu (Valparaíso Region, Chile) and Kumeyaay Territory (San Diego, California, USA). Currently composed by Antonio Catrileo Araya, Constanza Catrileo Araya, Malku Catrileo Araya, Alejandra Carrión Lira, and Manuel Carrión Lira.

Program: (38:30 min.)

1) Ngoymalayiñ O: Refusing the archive of death (2022), 06:36 min.

2) Neltume shows the path (2016), 05:36 min

3) Kiñe lafken ngelay afpun / One ocean, no borders (2020), 11:43 min.

4) Ngoymalayiñ 3: kiñe tranapule, mari witrapürayayngün / We do not forget 3: If one falls ten rises (2020), 04:13 min.

5) Mapuche temporalities of care (2021), 03:51 min.

6) Ngoymalayiñ 8: taiñ epupillan / We do not forget  8: our two-spirit ancestors (2022), 06:30 min.