{"id":16529,"date":"2020-06-22T21:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriartgallery.com\/project\/alantl-molina\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:13:39","slug":"alantl-molina","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/victoriartgallery.com\/en\/project\/alantl-molina\/","title":{"rendered":"Alantl Molina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alantl Molina has a different perspective; he has a deep interest in getting to the bottom of everything he sees. Growing up in Tampico, an oil-producing coastal city on Mexico’s border, may have given him the great advantage of not categorizing the development of his creative discourse: \u201cI didn’t grow up with those divisions of, \u2018Oh, there are musicians, there are photographers, you just go to school there.\u2019\u201d That’s why understanding his work means going through the passions that describe him: photography, music, and literature. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have always felt that the best portrait is to photograph someone intimately in an everyday moment. That is, instead of making them stand still in front of a camera, photograph the gaucho walking, watching the cattle in an open landscape of La Pampa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For Alantl, understanding his identity and his roots even extends to music and his desire to learn Nahuatl (he is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Russian, in addition to his native Spanish). Tepeyac usto, a musical group whose name comes from a phonetic play on a Nahuatl word and the name of French explorer Jacques Cousteau, participates in the soundtrack of Pelo Malo, a film directed by Venezuelan Mariana Rond\u00f3n, which was awarded the Golden Shell at the 2013 San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Nippon Am\u00e9rica \u65e5\u672c\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab<\/p>\n

Photographs by Taeko Nomiya, Marcio Takeda, and Luis Okamoto<\/p>\n

Curated by Alantl Molina<\/p>\n

2 Chome-15-1 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, September 2\u201315, 2019.<\/p>\n

The photographic exhibition Nippon Am\u00e9rica \u65e5\u672c\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab is an approach to Japan through the eyes of three Latin American photographers of Japanese origin: Brazilian Marcio Takeda<\/a><\/span>, Peruvian Luis Okamoto<\/a>, and Mexican Taeko Nomiya.<\/a><\/p>\n

The three photographers traveled to Tokyo in August 2019 to take the photographs for the exhibition. These images show the Japan they discovered as they explored the city, guided by the Japan that their family histories had planted in them. <\/p>\n

Three contemporary Mexican perspectives<\/p>\n

September 6, 2019. Tokyo. <\/p>\n

Presentation of the fauxtograms during the round table discussion Three Contemporary Mexican Perspectives with Alantl Molina, Ulises Castellanos, and Joel Castel at the Mexican Space of the Mexican Embassy in Japan.<\/p>\n

2020<\/p>\n

Fauxtograms: screening of the photographic series + live musical accompaniment<\/p>\n

January 30, 2020. Image Center. Mexico. <\/p>\n

On January 30, 2020, the Fauxtogramas series was screened at the Centro de la Imagen. The screening was accompanied by live music from Codakrom, Oscar Goldman, and Alantl Molina, who played the soundtrack from \u201cLa casa de t\u00e9\u201d (The Tea House). <\/p>\n

The video footage was shot by Sandra Luz L\u00f3pez and Ronald Rivas, and edited by Oscar Goldman. There is a photo gallery of the event at this link. <\/p>\n

Nippon Am\u00e9rica \u65e5\u672c\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab<\/p>\n

Photographs by Taeko Nomiya, Marcio Takeda, and Luis Okamoto<\/p>\n

Curated by Alantl Molina<\/p>\n

Barranquilla International Arts Carnival, February 6-9, 2020.<\/p>\n

The photographic exhibition Nippon Am\u00e9rica \u65e5\u672c\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab is an approach to Japan through the eyes of three Latin American photographers of Japanese origin: Brazilian Marcio Takeda, Peruvian Luis Okamoto, and Mexican Taeko Nomiya.<\/p>\n

The three photographers traveled to Tokyo in August 2019 to take the photographs for the exhibition. These images show the Japan they discovered as they explored the city, guided by the Japan that their family histories had planted in them. <\/p>\n

Residence in the USSR (A Studio on Revolution)<\/p>\n

May 2020<\/p>\n

During his residency in the USSR, he created the Discernia Collection, a supposed film distributor:<\/p>\n

\u201cEstablished in 1977 with the intention of bringing together a film collection that truly represents our species, for 42 years the Discernia Collection has brought each new generation of viewers film treasures that, despite their undeniable artistic merit, might not have transcended if they had been evaluated solely on market criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the two weeks leading up to the virtual screening of the fauxtograms<\/a>, the USSR Instagram account took on the identity of the Discernia Collection to publish synopses, video reviews, and interesting facts about the fauxtograms, as well as masterclasses by film composers, testimonial videos from people in the industry who talked about the influence of some of the fictional films in the fauxtograms on their own work, and other similar materials, all related to the fauxtograms.<\/p>\n

USSR (A Studio About Revolution) presents:<\/p>\n

A virtual projection of the photographic series \u201cfauxtograms\u201d<\/p>\n

May 22, 2020<\/p>\n

To close the residency<\/a> of Alantl Molina and Codakrom at USSR (Un Studio Sobre Revoluci\u00f3n), a screening of the series \u201cfauxtogramas\u201d was organized, set to music in a fake live performance by Codakrom, Oscar Goldman, and Alantl Molina.<\/p>\n

The screening took place in a virtual room that people accessed via a link posted on USSR’s Instagram profile. The fauxtograms were projected onto a wall in that room while the musicians played a fake live set on a Zoom call, and attendees could walk around the space and view the projection from any angle, even from behind the screen. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Umalali | The Garifuna Women’s Project. Stonetree Records <\/span><\/p>\n

Watina | Andy Palacio. Stonetree Records <\/span><\/p>\n

Garifuna soul | Aurelio Mart\u00ednez. Stonetree Records <\/span><\/p>\n

A religious service at Tepeyac <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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2017 Lenin, feature film directed by Samuel Dugarte<\/span><\/p>\n

2016 SEED: The Untold Story, feature-length documentary directed by Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz<\/span><\/p>\n

2014 Caracol, otros nosotros (Snail, Others Like Us), feature-length documentary directed by Flora Rodr\u00edguez<\/span><\/p>\n

2013 Bad Hair, film directed by Mariana Rond\u00f3n<\/span><\/p>\n

2009 What’s the tomato’s fault?, feature-length documentary<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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