Plant_Intelligence
Titel
Borrachero Dreams
Datum
2025
Bestand
Plant_Intelligencei
Inventarnummer
#zotero2-2641719.3KH9QGWD
Autor/en
Castelblanco, Felipe (Director)
Abstract
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.
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 Intelligence Plant agency Putumayo Speculative narrative Switzerland Territorial imagination (Amazon–Alps) Time-based media Video installation (three-channel) werke felipe castelblanco plant_intelligence data-publications
Ablagestruktur
Notes

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

Additional funding form:

Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and  Stiftung Niedersachsen.

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.

Equipment specifications:

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

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Metadata
RunningTime 00:14:00
DateAdded 2026-02-02T08:50:58Z
Language GE subtitles
SeriesTitle Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil’s Breath
Key 3KH9QGWD
DateModified 2026-03-02T09:32:23Z
Rights This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0