• Archives - January 2026

  repurposing footage, material traces, the act of preservation and the fiction of memory.

A machine-voice makes a "sad film of his homeland" for a dying patient to ease its passing: footage from Kennedy's visit to Venezuela in 61' creeps through montage errors, and a seemingly endless poem comes alive one last time.

Utilizing archive material from the United States Information Service from when US president Kennedy visited Venezuela, and other internet-derived abstractions, this hybrid-experimental film uses the historical to takes us on a trip through the last moments of a hospital-dying patient as an unknown voice-machine tries to put together a “sad” film to ease his passing into other worlds. The seemingly never-ending words that accompany this shadowed material belong to exiled Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. His last words still haunt many of us as we remind ourselves that any form of abusively disguised power is the enemy, whether up north, or back home.