Dung Kinship
2024
2-Channel Video Installation. (1 Channel Version Available)
19’15’’
Dung Kinship unfolds a digestive and psychedelic trip through the subsoil, the mycelium, and the unconscious. A group of fly-women on bikes travel through dry landscapes carrying shovels and empty bottles. They dig holes and seek shelter. One of them arrives at a forest where despite the drought, children/mushrooms sprout. The mushrooms trap her and reveal an epiphany to her: that her mission is not to gestate life, but to excavate and to recycle dead matter. The mushrooms take her to a Patron of Ecstasy who pushes her into the subsoil. Rolling in a spiral fall, a beetle incorporates her into his ball of dung and transports her to a cave where the Matron of Filth and Shit dwells. There she joins the dung kinfolks in the labor of transforming rotting and dying matter into generative force.
Directed, scripted and edited by:
NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Cast:
DIANA GOMEZ, RAISA ROBLES, LUIS ENRIQUE GARCÍA, ZAID GLEZ, ALEJANDRA LA BARA RODRÍGUEZ, ISIDRO SANTOS, LUIS FERNANDO RAMÍREZ, VICTORIA RAMIREZ GONZALEZ, CHILA, JORGE SIGÜENZA PEREZ, LEONARDO SIGÜENZA PEREZ, GOYA AGUILAR ADAMS, LORENZO AGUILAR ADAMS, MURIEL ILLESCAS CONTRERAS, REBECA ILLESCAS CONTRERAS, MAIKA LOUIS VELEZ DE WOLF, IAN LOUIS VELEZ DE WOLF, MERCEDES GEORGE
Cinematography:
JUAN M. GALVIS
Lightning and Camera Assistant:
FRANCISCO XAVIER KAT
Sound Design, Effects and Mix:
ENRIQUE ARRIAGA
Music Composition:
FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Sound Mix and Master:
ROD ESQUIVEL AT MADRE DE DIOS CDMX
Script Consultant, Additional Footage and Production Assistant:
MASHA GODOVANNAYA
Incidental Sound:
NAHÚ RODRÍGUEZ
Still Photography:
CLAUDIA LÓPEZ TERROSO
Field Producer and Drone Operator:
DAMIAN LOPEZ
AMake-Up and Production Assistant:
GUICHI NEYRA
Theater Games for Children Facilitator:
RAISA ROBLES
Props and Costume Design and Production:
NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Reed Craftsman:
URIEL AMBROSIO
Taylors:
LA MAZKARERIA MEXICO-OAXACA, MARIELA CRUZ
Studio Assistant:
CARO PECH
Pedal Power-Machines produced by:
ERICK DRAKS at C.A.C.I.TA =LABORATORIO COMUNAL
SONGS
“HOLY CHILDREN”
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Music: FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Vocals: MEI GIACONI SHIMADA y NAOMI RINCON GALLARDO
“DUNG BEETLE”
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Music: FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Vocals: YUKO CORNALE
“THE COLONIAL STALKING”
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Music: FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Vocals: MEI GIACONI SHIMADA
Dung Kinship was shot at
PARQUE ECOTURISTICO SAN ANDRES HUAYAPAM
ECOTURIXTLAN
C.A.C.I.T.A. = LABORATORIO COMUNAL
PRESA PIEDRA AZUL, TEOTITLAN DEL VALLE
Dung Kinship was co-produced by Toronto Biennial of Art and KADIST
TBA 2024 Curated by MIGUEL LOPEZ and DOMINIQUE FONTAINE