Walk&Talk Biennial — Gestures of Abundance

Presented by Walk&Talk Biennial (Azores), this screening invites viewers on an audiovisual journey through artistic practices that explore shifting territories — geographic, affective, spiritual, ecological, and political. The selection is rooted in the theme of the 2025 biennial, Gestures of Abundance, which challenges the perception of scarcity and reclaims practices of communality, interdependence, and world-making.

Four works, four distinct gestures trace pathways between memory and myth, critique and dream, land and body. Ecotone (Enar de Dios Rodríguez) presents a visual essay on borders and systems of control, weaving nature and culture into a critical reflection on plant migration, large-scale agriculture, and colonialism, exposing the “slow disaster” caused by the capitalist exploitation of land. In Aclarar (Isabel Medeiros), the memory of the Capelinhos volcanic eruption becomes a cinematic gesture where image and archive erupt simultaneously — a sensitive exploration of the materiality of forgetting and the tremor itself. Portal (Jane Jin Kaisen) invokes an insular and cosmological mythology, dissolving the boundaries between stone and skin, body and landscape, in a flow of images that pulses as living and poetic matter. Closing the program, Soy Much (Soya the Cow) bursts into a queer camp manifesto celebrating freedom, self-expression, and the abundance of non-normative bodies — both human and non-human.
This session draws lines of affinity that are both conceptual and sensorial: each work involves a gesture of displacement and excavation — of territory, of archive, of language, or of the body. There is a deep attentiveness to the natural world and its symbolic layers, a desire to re-enchant perception and to provoke friction between critique and affection. The geographies are diverse — from the Azores to Korea, from Catalonia to Switzerland — yet these gestures converge in their pursuit of a cinema that expands the image as poetic and political thought.