J E A N N E T T E M U Ñ O Z + D A N I E L A D E L G A D O
03.30.2020 - 04.15.2020
collection of ENVÍOS by JEANNETTE MUÑOZ (2005–present)
ENVÍO 24 (2010) for Helga Fanderl, París, 16mm, b/w, silent
ENVÍO 26 (2013) for F. Orrego y R. Schulz, Santiago de Chile, b/w, silent
ENVÍO 34 (2017) for Tania Masanti, Basel, color, silent
*Jeannette’s films have never been professionally digitized. The documentation we see here is a recording of a projection kindly given to us by the artist and is not representative of the original screening quality.
Dear Jeannette,
I’m like you. I’m from Latin America; the place where, as you said, dogs learn how to live in mysterious ways–like the dog that performs for the camera in one of your films.
I believe that in Latin America we all learn how to live in mysterious ways, no matter how many legs we have or the number of hairs we have per square inch of skin.
I would even dare say that this is one of the things that unites us as a region: mysterious forms.
Your films are full of mysterious forms. I think this is the reason why they’ve moved me so deeply. I believe that true mystery has never been easy to find. In fact, I believe that you can’t look for mystery, it has to find you.
I think that the images you’ve shared with us found you. There is a miracle in all of this. It feels like your camera traveled around the world waiting for a mystery to find her–with patience, openness, and joy.
I think this is beautiful. I truly thank you for sharing it with us.
I also want to tell you how much I admire the way you work. You are faithful to time and this, in the institutional world we live in, is hard to find.
Your images are not structured by a beginning and an ending. They’re not structured by duration or pre-established forms. On the contrary, your images are projected bravely without an apparent structure.
Besides this being an act of bravery, it is one of generosity. You give us, as viewers, the possibility of feeling active. You make us feel as if we were part of the traveling camera that goes around the world waiting to be found by a mystery–like in envío 26, when the camera patiently waits for the animals to look back.
Your images, among other things, are built on the principle of sharing. They are gifts and they are felt as such. And for that I thank you.
26.03.2020
Daniela Delgado
Daniela Delgado Viteri is a filmmaker from Ecuador. She attended Universidad del Cine in Argentina and Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts in France. She currently studies at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in the Basque country.
Her films are the documentation of processes she often performs with groups of people in a participative way and have been shown in festivals such as Rotterdam Film Festival, Rencontres Internationals, and CPH-DOX.
She has participated in residencies and exhibitions around the world, including France, USA, Germany, Italy and Argentina.
Jeannette Muñoz studied in Visual Arts at Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Artes. Lives and works in Zürich.
As an independent filmmaker/artist, she makes 16mm films since 2001 that circulate primarily in an experimental and non-fiction film context. Her films have been exhibited in many festivals and venues including New York Film Festival, Rotterdam FF Spektrum, Images Film Festival Toronto, Media City Film Festival Ontario Canada, Arsenal-Berlin, Ourense Film Festival, Festival Punto de Vista Pamplona, CGAI Centro Gallego de Artes da Imaxe, Xcèntric CCCB Barcelona, Palais de Glace Buenos Aires, Festival Internacional de Valdivia, Videoex Zürich, and many others.
All donations go to the contributing artists.
