Video still from Detrás de la Noche (Behind the Night), 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Felipe Castelblanco (CO/US)
Detrás de la Noche (Behind the Night)
HD video. 16:9, 12:00 min, Spanish with English Subtitles
2025
Detrás de la Noche (Behind the Night) explores the hidden life of plants after dark, revealing subtle, often invisible interactions between vegetal and other forest beings. Filmed with multispectral cameras deep in the Peruvan Amazon, just below the equatorial line—where day and night are in perfect balance—the the film immerses viewers in a shadowed world of vegetal awakening, ecological intimacy, and botanical sorcery, as the forest reveals itself in other spectral registers beyond human sight.
Felipe Castelblanco is a Colombian-American artist and filmmaker whose socially engaged practice operates at the intersection of cinema, performance, and territorial research. He is postdoctoral fellow at the Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK Basel FHNW. He holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. from the Kunstuniversität Linz and the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is the founder of The Para-Site School and Media Collectives across Europe and Latin America.
This artwork is realized within 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 (SNSF) and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.
Video still from Detrás de la Noche (Behind the Night), 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Felipe Kastelblanko (CO/US)
Detrás de la Noche (Nakts aizsegā)
video (HD, 16:9), 12:00 min, spāņu valodā ar angļu subtitriem
2025
Detrás de la Noche (Naktī) pēta augu slēpto dzīvi pēc tumsas iestāšanās, atklājot smalkas, bieži vien neredzamas mijiedarbības starp augiem un citiem meža iemītniekiem. Filma uzņemta ar multispektrālām kamerām dziļi Peru Amazones džungļos, tieši zem ekvatora līnijas, kur diena un nakts ir perfektā līdzsvarā. Filma ieved skatītājus ēnainā augu atmodas, ekoloģiskās intimitātes un botāniskās burvības pasaulē, kur mežs atklājas citos spektrālos reģistros, kas nav redzami cilvēka acīm.
Darbs tapis pētnieciskā projekta Augu_intelekts. Mācoties kā augam (2022–2025) ietvaros.
Pētniecības projekta autori: Ivonna Volkarta, Felipe Kastelblanko, Hūlija Menša un Rasa Šmite.
Projekts finansēts ar Šveices Nacionālā Zinātnes fonda (SNSF) atbalstu un īstenots Bāzeles Mākslas un dizaina akadēmijas (FHNW) Institūtā Art Gender Nature.