El mismo sol, otra luz

Years: 2023-2025 Digital transfer of super 8 mm b&n and color, 26 min, 5.1 sound, DCP

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.

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Intento Mirarlas

Years: 2021-2023Digital transfer of super 8 mm b&n and color, 9’ 47’’, 5.1 sound, DCP

When I encountered Cine Íntimo’s collection of Peruvian home movies, I felt a kinship with the women who appear in these films.

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[En tre] Fuego incesante

Years: 2020Digital HD, color, 9’ 49’’, stereo sound

Two circular landscapes built out of layers of personal images recorded during a traumatic trip. Abstraction of pain and memory.

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Con cierto animal

Years: 2018Digital transfer of 16 mm foundfootage, color, 12’, 5.1 sound

Animals, Humans, Earth, Wind, and Water converge with the same energy as a cinematic fire, which traverses and connects them.

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El mismo sol, otra luz

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

Intento mirarlas

When I encountered Cine Íntimo’s collection of Peruvian home movies, I felt a kinship with the women who appear in these films. Suddenly, I couldn’t help but see myself reflected as a cis woman and wonder about the gender roles of past eras and certain social classes—roles that still persist but that I myself do not (entirely) embody. My distanced gaze creates an interpretation of them through a rhythmic observation to evoke a sense of rupture, drawing from the reality of these women’s lives documented in an intimate setting. Who is watching them—do they watch you? In this film, I approach a certain gaze through the amateur camera.

This project is part of the collective film correspondence 14 Variations on the Intimate, organized by MUTA in 2021.

Title: Intento Mirarlas
Archival footage compiled from the “Cine íntimo” home movie archive
Directed & edited by: Ivonne Sheen Mogollón
Sound design: Belén Gómez de la Torre
Year: 2021–2023
Country: Peru

[In Between] Relentless Fire

Two circular landscapes built out of layers of personal images recorded during a traumatic trip. Abstraction of pain and memory. I interpret the experience of deepening into the winds and waters of my memory and affection. Inner landscape. Inspired by the philosophy of Heraclitus and Zen, the film is based in the existential ideas related to the phenomena of nature, but applied to personal memory and to the experience with images along our existence.

Original title: [En Tre] Fuego Incesante
Format: Shortfilm Digital HD/ Video Installation loop
Duration: 9:49
Year: 2020
Country: Peru
Image and sound: Ivonne Sheen Mogollón

Animal within

Animals, Humans, Earth, Wind, and Water converge with the same energy as a cinematic fire, which traverses and connects them. Through the appropriation of educational and religious images from 16 mm films, “Con cierto Animal” evokes a poetic collision between images of the human and the animal, opening up interstices to imbue them with new meanings.

Original title: Con cierto animal
Directed by: Ivonne Sheen Mogollón & Rebeca Alván
Sound Design: Carlos Andrés Ortega 
Editing: Ivonne Sheen Mogollón 
16 mm Intervention: Rebeca Alván, Nicole Escudero, Marisol Heredia 
Found Footage Transfer from 16 mm to Digital 
Duration: 12 min 
Year: 2018 
Country: Lima, Peru