Amor Rojo (in progress)
Amor Rojo (Red Love) uses the figure of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a Marxist theorist and Soviet revolutionary, radical feminist and sexual activist, as a guide to walk the labyrinth of female freedom, sexual emancipation, and love as weapon. The film seeks to make the necessary connections in a complex narrative bridging an ocean from Moscow to Mexico, from 20th Century socialist feminism to 21st Century Latin American transfeminisms, from the promise of revolution to the final fulfilling of that promise.
In 2024 Amor Rojo found a twin film in (Revolution, fulfil your promise) Red Love and its distribution has been discontinued.
Protagonists Vivian Abenshushan, Valeria Angola, La Bruja de Texcoco, Gisela Castillo, Alaíde Castro, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Lilian Cuervo, Alicia Hopkins, Ana Victoria Jiménez, Carla Lamoyi, Liz Misterio, Vivian Olmos, Rina Ortiz, Olga Rodríguez Montemayor, Havi Sánchez, Valentina Sánchez Uzal AKA Venus, Gerardo Sansón Pérez & Ana Zambrano
Texts Alexandra Kollontai
Camera Vincent Pinckaers & Miriam Ortiz Guzmán
Camera assistance Artur Castro Freire & Fernanda Patricia Vazquez Alcántara
Additional camera Gisela Castillo & & Esthel Vogrig
Sound Laszlo Umbreit
Technical supervision Boris Belay
Editing Simon Arazi & Dora García
Music La Bruja de Texcoco, Krõõt Juurak, Jan Mech & Susanna Wallumrød
Sound mix Rémi Gerard at Empire Digital
Color grading Loup Brenta at Cobalt
Produced by Auguste Orts
With support from Norwegian Artistic Research Program – Diku, Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Arts Council Norway – The Audio and Visual Fund, KUF grant – Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Fotogalleriet Oslo, Netwerk Aalst, Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Garage Field Research – Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Moscow, On & For Production and Distribution, FICUNAM, Intersección Lab, FID Marseille & Rose Art Museum