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Refugia: Animated Stories of Nature Thriving Through Collapse, 3min., Colombia
Directed by Lina Herrera, Natalia Romero, Cristian Barbosa, Gabriela Franco Prieto, Isabel Cavelier Adarve, mundo común
Among the cracks of the Anthropocene, sometimes it seems that we exist separated from the living world that surrounds us. That the present in crisis is the only possible trajectory and that our human identity has no alternative other than a straight line that grows, devastates, and destroys exponentially. In moments like this, the whispers of care and the sketches of interdependence become what science calls "Refugia"—pockets of seeds that safeguard the possibility of life through collapse. Through hand-illustrated frame-by-frame animation, and a story that seems whispered in one's ear, this short film is a sensitive invitation to revere and allow ourselves to be guided by the resilience mechanisms of the Nature of which we are part. A bio-poetic reflection on radical interdependence and the possibility of re-inhabiting a common world.
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