Open is Opening :: Abrir es Abrirendo, 2022

Open is Opening :: Abrir es Abrirendo
Film by Amber Bemak (USA), Nadia Granados (Colombia), and Liz Rosenfeld (Germany)

An experimental narrative work By artists Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados, and Liz Rosenfeld tracking the distance between three artists working remotely between three different continents. What was supposed to be their first in person collaboration became a work about the complicated nature of queer kinship through the transference of moving images and performative utterances, using dirt as the connecting material. Dirt, a substance that inadvertently crosses borders, became a vessel for deep intimacy between the makers. This film was made over three years as the artists collaborated between Germany, Colombia, and the United States during shifting political landscapes, personal and physical transitions, and the Covid- 19 pandemic.

Rough Suction is generously supported with production funds from the Goethe Institut-Bogota.