Synopsis:

ELDORADO XXI (2016) tells of the living conditions of workers in a gold mine in the southeast of Peru. Under an ancient system, “cachorreo,” miners work for 30 days without remuneration and on the 31st day (if lucky) they are allowed to explore the mine for their own profit. The film is a haunting and mysterious ethnographic reality cut-up. Set in the highest settlement in the world, La Rinconada (5,100m), in the Peruvian Andes.

Bio:
Salomé Lamas is a Portuguese filmmaker, visual artist and educator.

For the last fifteen years and with a steady production of more than thirty projects Lamas’ work has been contextualized in visual culture, artistic studies, and film studies, exhibited, and distributed internationally in the fields of cinema and contemporary art.

Lamas has been developing an artistic practice that explores the embedded relation between representation and the narrative power of social reality while proposing something different. Around, but not beyond, the real: beyond, but not besides, the fictional. To address the efforts to expand such interstice she refers to her work as critical media practice parafictions.

Location: Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall, Room 108.

Part of the Dandelions Screening Series, Presented by Leadership for the Ecozoic