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Borrachero Dreams

Format: Video recording
Transported by the powerful Brugmansia plant, an Indigenous man is thrust from the Colombian Amazon to the Swiss Alps, drifting between vision and reality. Known in Colombia as Borrachero Andaki (or Angel's Trumpet across Europe), this trickster plant-sprit guides a disorienting journey through time and space, rooted in the ancestral knowledge of the Kamëntšá people. Blending myth, memory, and ethnomedicine, the film explores Brugmansia’s power to dissolve boundaries and reveal the future—not through sight, but sensation.
2025


Additional funding form:

Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and  Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Cast: Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy and  Taita Miguel Chicunque. Camera: Felipe Castelblanco, Lydia Zimmermann, Camilo Pachon and Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy

Creative Editing: Monica Bustamante and Felipe Castelblanco

Color Grading: Monica Bustamante

Sound Design: Carolina Lucio Arias

Co-investigator: Ayënan Quinchoa

Equipment specifications:

REC 709 Color Profile, Presented as a video projection or on TV  Screens min size  48 Inch.

Institutional credits:

Borrachero Dreams. A work Felipe Castelblanco, realized in the framework of the research project Plants_ Intelligence. Learning like a Plant (2022 - 2025). A research project by Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch and Rasa Smite. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Co-commissioned by the Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and supported by Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Thanks to:

Botanical Garden, University of Zurich: Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Cámara Leret and team (Juan Carlos Copete Maturana, Kimberly Castro, Dr. Ingrid Olivares, Dr. Luiz Leonardo Saldanha). Federico Roda Fornaguera. Collectivo Mingueros, Salinas Meta: Azucena Olaya, Liliana Olaya, Dora Franco, Juan Alberto Castelblanco, John Alvaro Olaya y Familia, Valeria Castelblanco. Heraldo Vallejo, Quinchoa Juajibioy Family. Daniel Duarte. Plants Intelligence Team: Yvonne Volkart, Rasa Smite and Julia Mensch. Patrice Keenan and Luciano Ibá.

Tags

Basel Brugmansia arborea (Borrachero Andaki) Colombia Contemporary moving image art Ethnobotanical knowledge Expanded cinema Human–nonhuman relations Human–plant alliances Indigenous cosmologies Indigenous knowledge systems Kamnënstá people Plant agency Putumayo Speculative narrative Switzerland Territorial imagination (Amazon–Alps) Time-based media Video installation (three-channel) werke felipe plant_intelligence

Queries

Werke - Plant_Intelligence - Felipe Werke - Plant_Intelligence Werke catalog - Artistic catalog - Education catalog - HGK catalog - mediathek catalog - Network

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DateAdded
2026-02-02T08:50:58Z
DateModified
2026-02-02T08:50:58Z
Key
3KH9QGWD
Language
GE subtitles
Rights
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
RunningTime
00:14:00
SeriesTitle
Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil’s Breath
Handle
20.500.11806/med/4bvg-nphc-hc