2024 | USA, Colombia | Documentary,Experimental,Performance,Feature

Morichales

  • Spanish English 83 mins
  • Director | Chris Gude
  • Writer | Chris Gude
  • Producer | Chris Gude, Felipe Guerrero

STATUS: Completed

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In Venezuelan Guayana, large gold reserves lie beneath “moriche” palms, attracting miners from across the region. A narrator travels from far-flung mines in the jungle to the banks of the Orinoco River, trying to understand the uncertain fortune of the miner. His reflections combine illustrations and photochemical paintings to draw a map of the mining and commercialization of gold in Venezuela while also questioning humankind’s extractivist relationship with nature.

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