An anticolonial collective formed by Sápara, Kichwa, and mestizx artists who create from the forest as a territory of memory, resistance, and vision. Founded in 2017, their practice explores moving image, photography, and living archives to reimagine narratives through the lens of dreams, ritual, and the body. Their work consists of multidisciplinary collective pieces and educational processes with Amazonian communities that converge toward the creation of their own intimate, collective, and experimental narratives rooted in their territories.
Kawashima, 2026
In Kawashima, vessels formed from forest soil become sites of passage, return, and transformation. Drawing from Sápara ceramic practices sustained by women, the work ap-proaches clay as a living ground for grief, continuity, and transmission. Shaped through the artist Sani Montahuano’s experience of becoming a mother alongside the death of a grandmother, the film holds arrival and departure within the same field of relation.
Llaki, 2026
In Llaki, Tawna narrates queer, LGBTQIA+, and warmipangui experiences in the Ecuadorian Amazon from Indigenous perspectives. The work moves against a long colonial history that distorted these experiences through imposed ideas of sin, civilization, and development, displacing other ways of understanding the body, desire, and communal life.
