Felipe Castelblanco (CO/US)
Detrás de la Noche [Behind the Night]
HD video. 16:9, 12:00. Spanish with English Subtitles, 2025
Video still from Forest Mind, courtesy of the artist.
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.