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Upriver

Upriver is a two-channel film that follows a journey up the Putumayo River in the Colombian Pan Amazon region, revealing a vertical landscape with planetary resonance where indigenous resistance, trees, soils, clouds, light, and shadow inter-exist. Departing from the Siona territory in the lower Amazon at 300 M.A.S.L to the Quillacinga territory in the highlands of the Colombian Andes at 3000 M.A.S.L, this film takes the viewer along a meandering river that cuts across territories in dispute. It is here where overlapping sovereignties emerge and extractive industries clash with human and non-human communities resisting violence across this vertical axis of power and occupation.

  • Felipe Castelblanco
    Director
  • Felipe Castelblanco
    Writer
  • Felipe Castelblanco
    Producer
  • Lydia Zimmernann
    Camera
  • Felipe Castelblanco
    Camera
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Rio Arriba
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 28, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Switzerland
  • Country of Filming:
    Colombia
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Felipe Castelblanco

Felipe Castelblanco is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and researcher working at the intersection of participatory art and film. In 2021, Felipe earned a Ph.D. from the Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria) and the Make/Sense Graduate School (Basel HGK). In 2015 he served as a Cultural Emissary for the U.S State Department to the Philippines, and has been the recipient of several international awards, including the Starr Fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools in London (2014), a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (2019), and was the 2021 finalist for the Breakthrough Awards from the Breaking Walls Foundation in Berlin for his efforts towards biocultural peacebuilding in Colombia. Recent shows include the 2019 Quebec Biennial, Helmhaus Zurich (Switzerland), Seasons of Media at ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany), and The Queens International at the Queens Museum in New York.

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