Language of the Entrails

Luciana Decker Orozco seeks an ancestral sense of orientation, positioning her attentive gaze on the trail of a line of ants, the multi directional flow of an Interandean waterfall and an impossible tremble in the air. Her unique sensorial gravity moves from the familiar space of a mouth cavity to the mysteries of Earth’s concealed chambers where life gestates in the dark and drips of water leave permanent marks on the celluloid. Puro Andar (Language of the Entrails) dances to a primitive tempo which reminds us of Churata’s poetic world where the dead share a pleasurable bond with the living. Decker Orozco explores this bond with playfulness, using a refreshing and porous cinematic vocabulary capable of holding multiple temporalities.

~ Ane Lopez

Luciana Decker Orozco is a bolivian filmmaker living in La Paz. MFA graduated in Cinematic Arts program at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Working in 16mm format, I’m exploring the spectral presence of places, objects, and matter, intertwining them with micro histories revealed through intimate interactions and relationships with the people who participate in my films.

What humans see as blood, jaguars see as chicha (2023), Spoils (2023) Objetos Parlantes (2021), Belén (2020), Larama (2020), Nana (2016)