Mar(i)cona

The Serranía Baja de Cuenca (Spain) is a land where two species of almonds are grown: larguetas and marconas. When the artist went to shake the almond trees with his family, Cienfuegos understood "mariconas" ("faggot" in Spanish) instead of "marconas". From this displacement, the artist starts arising questions about the boundaries queer people have in rural areas.

A montage of personal video and photo archives, Mar(i)cona delivers an intimate reflection on the relationship between territory and identity, rurality and queerness, norm and dissidence, mapping out a space of expression between audiovisual essay and personal cinema challenging the false evidence on the construction of the self, the relationship to the environment and the representation of a territory too often reduced to pastoral landscapes or to a geographical void.

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mar(i)cona from cande lázaro cienfuegos on Vimeo.