"Invención de la Naturaleza" is a collaborative film piece with a duration of 62 minutes that resorts to narrative cinema, documentary testimonials, archival footage and literary discourse to reflect on the nature of socio-political repercussions of borders and their defining of an individual’s perception of self and “the other”. An imaginary account of travels by Mina across the US-Mexico border in a futile attempt to reconstruct her past.
The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with the filmmakers.
Alejandro Sescosse (Co-Director) - Alejandro has worked in all aspects of film production since 2008. Born in Mexico City and a Texas resident for 23 years, he lives and works in the Houston area. He obtained a liberal arts degree in Philosophy at the University of Texas in Austin, studied the technical aspects of filmmaking at the New York film academy and gained real life experience working on independent film productions in New York City. After completing his first feature length project in 2019, Alejandro’s interest lies in expanding on the possibilities of nano production models nearing cinema to the individual human scale. Films closer to writing in the simplicity of its material requirements but infinitely complex in its possibilities.
Anna Veselova (Editor) - Originally from Moscow, Russia, Anna moved to Houston, TX 10 years ago and switched from her career in finance to art photography. Since she was discovered by Getty Images in 2010, Anna had several exhibitions, worked on the movie sets as a backstage photographer and as a principal photographer for Houston Cinema Arts Festival where she met Alejandro in 2015. In the same year she started participating in commercial and short film productions as an editor and in 2019 co-edited the film titled Invention of Nature - a feature length project directed by A. Sescosse and S. Bastani.
Admission is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required to receive the private Zoom link.
This film is in English and Spanish, with subtitles.