After the Fire

Life always finds a way, and even after a devastating forest fire, nature has strategies to heal itself and bring life back. This is the extraordinary phenomenon that artist Tamara García explores in her new experimental film Después del fuego (After the Fire), which highlights the key role of trees as the building block of Life. With a soundtrack created by sound artist Ganzo, the film takes us on an immersive journey through our planet's history, from Earth's early stages to the Anthropocene.

Synopsis:

After the Fire is a visual experiment where the artist reflects on the notions of time, living space, uncertainty, resilience, possibility, and desire. It presents dystopian landscapes using several techniques based on the artist’s own and appropriated materials.

The soundtrack was developed in a live mix session with four CDJs using bird whistles, fire sounds and tracks from the first electronic pioneers, many of whom were women forgotten by history. The session was completely improvised and recorded live while the artist was playing the video.

Born in Santander in 1980, Tamara García is an artist interested in creative processes and multidisciplinary experimentation.

She takes inspiration from the everyday, the domestic – studying the fabric of our social, political and cultural relations and investigating how they are shaped and modified by unwritten laws, customs and traditions. ‘I try to observe the way in which we live, how we adapt to geopolitical impositions and how we transit between the public and private. My work is about rethinking the behaviours and attitudes that condition and classify us.’

A live screening of After the Fire was presented on Earth Day 2022