Catalogue > At random

A foreign city, the filmmaker’s surroundings, daily life. An accumulation of experiential instances that describe inhabiting a post-industrial landscape, the end of a love story, and the politics of the private and the public. The camera, as a device for recording and recollection, goes beyond evoking the past to become a tool for the appearance and exorcism of specters. Shot over a span of three years (2015-2018) in Upstate New York, Chile, Japan, Los Angeles, the California Desert, Miami and Mexico City, this is the first film of a six part 16 mm series, that meditates on love and the act of making.

Alexandra Cuesta. Filmmaker living in Ecuador and the U.S. Her films combine experimental film traditions along with documentary practices, and investigate the reciprocity of the gaze in time based representation. Her work has screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival, Cinema Du Réel, FIDMarseille, BFI London, Oberhausen, Courtisane, Viennale and also at the Anthology Film Archives, Image ForumTokyo, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MOCA, Palacio de Bellas Artes, among others.