Inspired by Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble.
El lago de Cuitzeo -Cuitzeo’s lake (Mexico’s second largest)—is in danger of extinction. Urban development, changes of land use, fires, and negligence are provoking its imminent drought.
dancer: Rocio Luna; cinematography and editing: Ana Baer; second camera: Claudia Fragoso; music: Joaquin Lopez Chas; Production team: Ever Avila, Gerardo Avila, Carlos Fernández; Still photography: Eric Sanchez; direction: Ana Baer + Rocio Luna; production: Baer Production + CAAE
AWARDS/HONORS
2026: Festival Internacional de VideoDanza, XX Aniversario, La Habana, Cuba; Festival del Tempo, Rome, Italy – Best Experimental Film
2024: Make Art Not Fear, Porto, Portugal – Best photography; Hungry Minds Film Festival, Bra, Italy – Quarterfinalist; Festival de Cine y Multimedia FECIMU, Buenos Aires, Argentina- Best experimental short
2023: Bizarrya Short Film Fest, Porto, Portugal – Best experimental film
SCREENINGS
09/10/2026 ICJ International Film Award, Lviv, Ukraine
5/27/2026 Festival del Tempo, Rome, Italy
4/24-26/2026 Festival Internacional de VideoDanza, XX Aniversario, La Habana, Cuba
03/26-27/2026 Teatro de la Danza G. Bravo, (8M), México City, MX
03/23/2026 Festival Internacional de Arte, San José, Costa Rica
02/28/2025, Coctelito Videodanza, Yucatán, MX
01/01/ 2025, Filmarte Short Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
11/21-23/2024, Dulcísimo Ovario, Pachuca, Hidalgo, MX
11/14/2024, Festival de Videodanza Derrumbes, Huatulco, MX
11/11/2024, Art Speaks Out-Environmental Initiative, Berlin, Germany
11/07/2024, WideScreen Film and Music Video Festival, Toronto, Canada
11/01-17/2024, Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, Australia
10/06/2024, Make Art Not Fear, Porto, Portugal
09/2024, Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival, Agrinio, Greece
07/31-09/15/2024, FIVRS, Porto Alegre e Pelotas, BR
07/27-08/03/2024, SYRY FESTIVAL DE ARTES ESCÉNICAS, Asunción, Paraguay
07/27/2024, Cineclube dos Criadores, Rio de Janeiro, BR
07/22/2024, EmpowerHer Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
06/28-29/2024, Hungry Minds, Film Festival, Bra, Italy
04/15/2024, Cinema of The World International Film Fest, New Delhi, India
04/05-09/2024, FECIMU Festival Internacional de Cine y Multimedia, Buenos Aires, AR
02/22/2024, Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Ed, San Antonio, TX
12/10/2023, IMARP, Imagens em Movimento, São Paulo, BR
12/04/2023, FESTIVERD VENEZUELA, Caracas, Venezuela
11/17/2023, MIC EXPERIMENTA MICMX International Film Festival, CDMX
10/19-21/2023, Opening Door Dance Theatre, TXST, US
10/08/2023, Make Art Not War Film Festival Online, MX/Argentina
09/24/2023, Mañana Film Festival, Querétaro, MX
09/16/2023, Escena Patrimonio, organizada por UNESCO, CDMX
08/25-09/01/2023, Festival de Video Danza Cuerpo Digital, Cochabamba, Colombia
05/25/2023, Muestra Internacional de VideoDanza del FIMUDANZA, Xalapa, MX
07/13/2023, Esto es para Esto – Exhibidora de Cine, Monterrey, NL, MX
07/28-30/2023, Festival Internacional de Cine Cannábico, CDMC
03/30-04/06/2023, Exhibidora de Cine, Monterrey, MX
03/15/2023, Bizarrya Short Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
03/15-04/26/2023, Fisura International Festival of Experimental Video, CDMX, MX
02/17/2023, MICMX International Film Festival, Mexico City, MX
01/15/2023, Lift-Off Sessions, England, UK
12/16/2022, Inheritance – The Environmental Festival, Belfast, Ireland
12/01/2022, ContextFilm, Moscow, Russia
11/21-25/2022, FEDAXV 22, Valdivia, Chile
11/19/2022, Balkan Can Kino, Athens, Greece
11/07-13/2022, Dança em Foco, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
11/06/2022, Fashion Film Festival Chicago, IL
10/29-30/22, COCO Dance Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad
10/07/2022, Festival de CineArte en la Frontera, Táchira, Venezuela
09/01/2022, Eku’e Muestra de Videodanza, Asunción, Paraguay
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