At barrunto’s sticky, tender core is the power of artistic collaboration. A multiplicity of living voices, attuned to feelings of loss and slow ecological violence, imagine other possible worlds. The intricate constellation of scientific and speculative sounds – and sound descriptions – is sense tickling; from the click click click of a spiking radiation metre and the eeriness of snapping shrimps, to the delirious sound of Uranus’ giggles and hypnotic Puerto Rican protest songs. Emilia Beatriz turns to the language of quantum physics to speak of their own diasporic experience, that of bodies gravitating towards each other despite the distance that separates them. barrunto is a healing, porous and alchemical experience like the hawthorn berries that Beatriz used to develop some of the film’s footage. (Ane Lopez)

Emilia Beatriz (they/elle) is an artist and access worker from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, based in Glasgow. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives – grounded in oral history and community archiving – centering dreaming, action, and griefwork attuned to climate and place. Recent work includes the exhibition ‘In Dispersion / En la Dispersión, VISARTS, Maryland; the talk On Moss as Matter & Metaphor with Amelia Merced; Sappho’s Wake, a performance/reading for a wake: on mourning, marking and moving forward together with joy hosted by Birds of Paradise and San Alland; and ‘declarations on soil and honey’ exhibition CCA, Glasgow, 2019.

Director:

A CROSSING: 1698-2003 (2023), a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation, (2019), conversación con ana elisa (2019), P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N (2014)

Collaborator:

House Made of Tin (dir. Raisa Kabir) (2020) – editor & integrated access

If From Every Tongue It Drips (dir. Sharlene Bamboat) (2022) – collaborator & integrated access