Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Some accounts bend the soul. Such changes, such losses, fold us. We curl up around the hollow. Then, to raise is to unfold. That which requires forms of return, to dwell and reflect. Then, memories prove themselves useful: stacked up, a column of support; moved around they play novel roles and entertain. At the peripheries of such accounts, in the process of change, external beings turn towards us, the world becomes loaded with entrails, the other moves us, while in face of everything we pour ourselves. Divides where never so present and simultaneously misty. The backbone of loss is a trajectory. It is myth as verb and essay intertwined. It is the flexible virtuality of structures; diverse forms talk like sisters. Like Chiropractice, this film is an adjustment, proper and of cinema’s patterns towards the unpredictable, the playful or loving.

Artist and filmmaker based in Mexico City.?At first glance, her work carries aesthetic and pleasure claims, right up to a tenuous range of sensations. However, its presentation is performative - soaked with temporality; and its purpose, conceptual or perhaps spiritual. The work revolves around a quest to locate and isolate concepts built around tangible elements, to then create abstractions that regenerate their image and position their force within a new context. Virtual spaces rise and with them propositions for change: towards kindness, backwardness, slowing down, Ecology... Her practice ponders on presence; greatly inspired by the simplicity of certain formations, the economic and exponential nature of proposals, the power of hosting bodies and the playful air of philosophical reverberations. Laborde just finalized her first feature: The Backbone of Loss; as well as, attended Atelier 105 - Post production residency with her experimental documentary of Havana, Fiñe. As a result she is now distributed and archived by Light Cone. Her solo show, El duelo de una espina dorsal, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Director and Chief Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture took place at Luis Barragán’s J17 as a PEANA Off-site exhibition, February 2022. In 2021 Laborde aside having a retrospective with DocumentaMadrid, had a year long residency at The Museo Rufino Tamayo CDMX with her project -ito/-ita, a production residency at LIFT CA, and a three year, hybrid residency with Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - Conditional Cinema for the production of her film Ficciones, recently presented at the New York Film Festival and BFI among others. Her thesis, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN, is part of the catalogue: Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America and was widely screened among these: Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam (Competition Tigger Shorts), New Directos/New Films at MoMa, FSLC and 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil… and awarded GRAND PRIX at 25fps Zagreb and JURY AWARD at 24th CUFF. Collaboration Notas y notas y notas… with Jenny Berger Myhre was commissioned and presented at Borealis Festival for Experimental Music in 2019. Manuela de Laborde holds an Intermedia Art BA hons from Edinburgh College of Art and an MFA in Film and Video from The California Institute of the Arts.