After emigrating to Germany, I reencountered Super 8 mm analogue images I filmed on the Island of the Moon in Lake Titicaca. To experience these images in my new context opened up the relationship between mining exploitation and the creation of images. I weaved a sensorial journey that confronts and contrasts territories and bodies of water which are constantly exploited and these associations happen transcending a linear time-space. The film was also filmed in some RWE energy plants in NRW and it approaches some visual imaginaries of the Island of the moon written in the Copacabana de los Incas by Jesus Vizcarra and the scientific text The islands of Titicaca and Koati by Adolph Bandelier. These two books brought me to the Ibero Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin which also became an evidence of the connections in between Nations states and the centralization of knowledge. 


Director, camera & sound: Ivonne Sheen Mogollón
Sound Design: Lilian Villalba & Ivonne Sheen Mogollón
Music: Fatmeh, Mueran Humanos and OEIN
Years: 2023-2025 
Digital transfer of super 8 mm b&n and color
Duration: 26 min
5.1 sound, DCP