Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims: A Film Screening and Q&A

Fri Nov 07 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm UTC-05:00

Irving Theater/Code Building | Charlottesville

UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy (DTD) Lab
Publisher/HostUVA's Digital Technology for Democracy (DTD) Lab
Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims: A Film Screening and Q&A
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Join us for a film screening followed by brief Q&A and a reception
About this Event

Since 2016, artist and filmmaker Arjuna Neuman and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva have worked together on their Elemental Cinema series, thinking alongside fire, earth, and water to address pressing questions about environmental and political crisis through perspectives and temporalities beyond the human.

Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims (2023) is the latest installation of this series, following the wind across oceans and rivers towards Chile’s Atacama Desert. Here in the desert sands, successive eras of mining and the unmarked graves left by the Pinochet regime at the birth of neoliberalism signal this landscape’s material intimacy with planetary histories of extraction and with a current moment of political crisis. Thinking these forms of colonial violence through atmospheres, minerals, and memories, the film gestures towards an “elemental sociality” and a new way of thinking and being.

Please join us for a free screening of the film, open to the public. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A and a reception.

This event is sponsored by UVA’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, along with the Page-Barbour Committee, and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures.

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Irving Theater/Code Building, 225 West Water Street, Charlottesville, United States

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