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With Vanja and other friends, we go swimming every summer in the rivers of Góis. We started going there in 2016, when we arrived in Europe and we were looking for a place that would remind us of the mountains of Chile, where we grew up. Every year new lovers arrive and new couples are made or broken. Everything is always in motion again. One afternoon of swimming, my friend Rodrigo tells me that some time ago he and his boyfriend started practicing a form of vampirization: they make small cuts in each other's skin with razor blades and suck each other's blood.

Francisco Rodríguez Teare is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in France with a moving image practice working predominantly with cinema, video and installation. Since 2015 he has been creating film and video works and exhibiting them internationally both in film festival circuits and contemporary art contexts. His work explores the flow of power within fluid global networks and territories, opacity of violence, the traces of the dead in the world of the living, oral traditions and their intersection with personal memory and popular myths. Recently his work has been presented at Stedelijk Museum, Taipei Biennial, Film Society of Lincoln Center, VIDEONALE, FID Marseille, Collection Lambert, CPH:DOX, Shangai Film Festival, Courtisane, Doc Lisboa, Viennale, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. He has received awards at the Valdivia Film Festival, Festival Punto de Vista and the Fondation François Schneider, among others.