Ayni

Single-channel moving image. (07:35) Filmed in Chile and Bolivia.

The title means reciprocity in Kunza, the language of the Lickan Antay people. The film developed during my residency in Coyo, a landscape shaped by extreme dryness and by the movement of water through it.

The footage moves between plants, irrigation channels, soil, volcanic formations and the horizon, layering images at different scales. During the residency I made simple sculptural forms, and I walked, marked the ground and tried to find water. Field recordings of birds, llamas and an ocarina form the soundtrack.