Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
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Colectivo Los Ingrávidos is a group of independent artists who experiment with documentary approaches and found footage. Their goal is to challenge the commercialization of audiovisual creativity and the tedium of conventional television and cinema production. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos arose as a resistance movement and collective action that began cooperating amid major protests against the Mexican government, reporting through an anonymous YouTube channel for fear of retaliation. To work collaboratively is a political decision to deconstruct the artist-centered neoliberal order in which the object's value and the author's intention are at the focus of critical debate. It was necessary to operate as an anonymous collective as Mexico is the second-deadliest country in the world for journalists after Syria (according to Reporters Without Borders.) Los Ingrávidos' work must be understood in light of their collective roots, collaborative production process, and decentralized approach to content and form. Their radical visual sound experiments and relational approach are methods for dismantling audiovisual ideological paradigms. Their films capture the urgency, immediacy, and energy of direct political action, thereby presenting a common critical space.
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Colectivo Los Ingrávidos is a group of independent artists who experiment with documentary approaches and found footage. Their goal is to challenge the commercialization of audiovisual creativity and the tedium of conventional television and cinema production. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos arose as a resistance movement and collective action that began cooperating amid major protests against the Mexican government, reporting through an anonymous YouTube channel for fear of retaliation. To work collaboratively is a political decision to deconstruct the artist-centered neoliberal order in which the object’s value and the author’s intention are at the focus of critical debate. It was necessary to operate as an anonymous collective as Mexico is the second-deadliest country in the world for journalists after Syria (according to Reporters Without Borders.) Los Ingrávidos’ work must be understood in light of their collective roots, collaborative production process, and decentralized approach to content and form. Their radical visual sound experiments and relational approach are methods for dismantling audiovisual ideological paradigms. Their films capture the urgency, immediacy, and energy of direct political action, thereby presenting a common critical space.