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Dream-like landscape doubly exposed, clouds seem to be on top of ocean on top of land.Three deer turn away from the camera into the diffracted horizon.

BARRUNTO

BARRUNTO

barrunto, 2024, 70mins

We witness the island spill onto the streets demanding the return of what never quite existed, yet ‘never completely disappeared’

This quote, riffing on Denise Ferreira da Silva’s thinking*, seems like a synecdoche of barrunto, a small part that describes the whole. It helps us understand barrunto as a filmic critical practice, non-linear, and prefigurative; bringing the future into the present, while projecting the present forwards. The joy and grief of being moved by and moving in transit—between times, localities or ecologies of oppression and resistance—is the experience barrunto shares.

Here’s how Emilia describes the film, in more precise terms.

“barrunto” is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to a bodily unrest, an omen or a forecast sensed via signals present in the environment (such as when coming rain is felt through aches and pains or when ants emerge anticipating an earthquake). “barrunto” is a way of thinking with surface and subconscious, underfoot and underground. 

Informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance, barrunto is a speculative narrative using digital, archival, and 16mm film hand-processed in “grief tea.” An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed; in sites of displacement, nuclear contamination, and military occupation from Scotland to Puerto Rico; from the bottom of the ocean to the planet Uranus.

This screening will present the film within a gently enhanced environment including vibration and light.

*Ancestral Claims – Denise Ferreira da Silva

Content Notes
Flashing images. barrunto failed the Harding Test at the following timecodes: 33:04, 38:06-38:15, 45:33, 47:12. Loud noises. Ear defenders and ear plugs will be available.

Bio

Emilia Beatriz (they/elle) is an artist and access worker from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, based in Glasgow.

Credits

Director/Edit/Script: Emilia Beatriz

Music: Shanti Lalita and Nidia Góngora

Sound Design: Claude Nouk

Translation: Nicole Cecilia Delgado / La Impresora

Archival Footage: Andrés Nieves / Archivo Histórico de Vieques

Integrated Captions: Collective Text

Animation: Sharif Elsabagh

Caption Consultation: Bea Webster & Ciaran Stewart

With

Shanti Lalita (Voz Elemental)

Harry Josephine Giles (URAN(i)O)

Alicia Matthews (Narrator)

Ángela Ginorio (Reader)

A Margaret Tait Award Commission, with support from Screen Scotland and CCA Glasgow

Documentation

13 images, 1 video, 1 audio

This introduction includes Emilia Beatriz reading a piece by poet Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Emilia Beatriz is seated speaking into a microphone. They are cast in a reddish light stage lights,

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Film still with text the reads ba-rrun-to from the film BARRUNTO by Emilia Beatriz

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Image of projected screen featuring a still from the film BARRUNTO

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Image of a projected screen with film still of an abstract water, perhaps a river. The word "barrunto" is in white text superimposed on top of the image.

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Green lights glow upwards against a wall at either side of glowing projected screen which features green shimmering water.

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Someone stands behind a table serving Grief Tea from a flask to audience members at Emilia Beatriz's screening of "BARRUNTO"

▴ Grief Tea being given to audience as part of 'BARRUNTO' screening by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Someone hands a take away cup of Grief Tea to an audience member at Emilia Beatriz's screening of "BARRUNTO"

▴ Grief Tea being given to audience as part of 'BARRUNTO' screening by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

3 sheets of paper with the ingredients for grief tea. The text is handwritten with a botanical drawing at the bottom in blank ink

▴ Grief Tea ingredients list. Part of 'BARRUNTO' screening by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

extreme closeup on the ground in a peat bank, bright glowing squishy sphagnum moss, rich glittering oily earth.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

Coastal landscape with a skewed horizon in a cloudy sunset. Looking out from behind a rocky outcrop towards the sea with Cape Wrath headland in distance. Closer, waves lap Garbh Island’s rough edges.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

In Cape Wrath Bombing Range, a close up of a crater in a boggy moor. Beautiful bright sky and fluffy cloud reflect upside down in water pooled in the hole. Heather fabulously sprouts around the edges.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

Hillside covered in blooming heather, moody high contrast. Closeup clump of heather shaking in agitated movement.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

Dream-like landscape doubly exposed, clouds seem to be on top of ocean on top of land.Three deer turn away from the camera into the diffracted horizon.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

Emilia Beatriz is seated speaking into a microphone. They are cast in a reddish light stage lights,

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Film still with text the reads ba-rrun-to from the film BARRUNTO by Emilia Beatriz

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Image of projected screen featuring a still from the film BARRUNTO

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Image of a projected screen with film still of an abstract water, perhaps a river. The word "barrunto" is in white text superimposed on top of the image.

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Green lights glow upwards against a wall at either side of glowing projected screen which features green shimmering water.

▴ 'BARRUNTO' by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Someone stands behind a table serving Grief Tea from a flask to audience members at Emilia Beatriz's screening of "BARRUNTO"

▴ Grief Tea being given to audience as part of 'BARRUNTO' screening by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

Someone hands a take away cup of Grief Tea to an audience member at Emilia Beatriz's screening of "BARRUNTO"

▴ Grief Tea being given to audience as part of 'BARRUNTO' screening by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

3 sheets of paper with the ingredients for grief tea. The text is handwritten with a botanical drawing at the bottom in blank ink

▴ Grief Tea ingredients list. Part of 'BARRUNTO' screening by Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It, Credit: Alex Woodward

extreme closeup on the ground in a peat bank, bright glowing squishy sphagnum moss, rich glittering oily earth.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

Coastal landscape with a skewed horizon in a cloudy sunset. Looking out from behind a rocky outcrop towards the sea with Cape Wrath headland in distance. Closer, waves lap Garbh Island’s rough edges.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

In Cape Wrath Bombing Range, a close up of a crater in a boggy moor. Beautiful bright sky and fluffy cloud reflect upside down in water pooled in the hole. Heather fabulously sprouts around the edges.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

Hillside covered in blooming heather, moody high contrast. Closeup clump of heather shaking in agitated movement.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

Dream-like landscape doubly exposed, clouds seem to be on top of ocean on top of land.Three deer turn away from the camera into the diffracted horizon.

▴ BARRUNTO, Dir. Emilia Beatriz,(2020-24), Credit: Film still courtesy on the artist

"BARRUNTO Introduction" with Emilia Beatriz at Arika Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It

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