Credits
Bienvenidos conquistadores interplanetarios y del espacio sideral (2024)
Film, 95 min. Premiere in Puerto Rico In the gallery: stills from the film, photographic prints
La Vulcanizadora (María Rojas Arias y Andrés Jurado)
Artists / Filmmakers Colombia, live and work in Bogotá, Colombia
La Vulcanizadora is the studio of artists and filmmakers María Rojas Arias and Andrés Jurado, where cinema, visual art, and theater converge. Their work is defined by an intense engagement with archives and counter-archives, intertwined with processes of historical memory, revolution, resistance, science fiction, colonialism and anti-colonialism, class struggle, and political crossroads.
Rooted in present-day Colombia, La Vulcanizadora acknowledges the cultural legacies of Africa, Asia, and other regions, tracing connections that extend across the Caribbean, the Amazon, and the Orinoquía. The studio collaborates with a diverse community of contributors — living and dead, visible and invisible — who bring knowledge from science, biology, philosophy, education, ethology, anthropology, history, music, literature, and translation, as well as from multiple forms of embodied and situated knowledge. Their practice critically and provocatively engages questions of production and institutional structures.