Jean-Jacques Martinod is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, media artist, film curator, abyssal researcher, and clandestine anarchivist. His work is engaged within extended modes of noetic and intersubjective experience manifest through an ongoing practice of experimental cinema. His interests encompass the human and non-human, folk mythology, anemic memory, supra-regional biomes, hydra techno-logics, and poetic mediation within living systems and their extended cohabitants. Martinod's work has been showcased in leading festivals, museums and cinematheques around the world. He received his MFA from Concordia University where he was a member of the Centre for Expanded Poetics, The Global Emergent Media Lab, and Fabrique-mondes Research Group. He is currently pursuing a PhD student within the Emergent Technology and Media Art Practices (ETMAP) program at the University of Colorado, where he is also a programmer for the Expanded Cinema section of the Mimesis Documentary Festival.
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Within the ancient Precambrian rock of Northern Canada sits one of the largest reserves of uranium on the planet. A power that has yielded the largest destructive energy known to man, also manifest in the region's harsh natural glory. A gothic travelogue that summons dialogue with ghosts of the region; abandoned mining towns swallowed within the pandemonium of extraction commerce and neglect, w...
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Within the ancient Precambrian rock of Northern Canada sits one of the largest reserves of uranium on the planet. A power that has yielded the largest destructive energy known to man, also manifest in the region's harsh natural glory. A gothic travelogue that summons dialogue with ghosts of the region; abandoned mining towns swallowed within the pandemonium of extraction commerce and neglect, w...