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Ensayo #1 (tiempos de guerra)
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Ensayo #1 (tiempos de guerra)

Marching-band film from Quito’s school peripheries

Based in Netherlands, Netherlands

Sound art

This is a single-channel film, not a concert. It follows two student marching bands moving between martial cadences and Latin American popular arrangements, with editing folding their separate rehearsals into a staged battle.

More about Ensayo #1 (tiempos de guerra)

The work comes from Francisco Baquerizo-Racines’ ongoing Tiempos de Guerra project. He works from the tension between center and periphery, and this piece keeps the action inside the schools while pointing to wider conflict and confinement.

A story

The two bands are filmed separately, so they never share the same space.

Playing

For fans of

Nicolas Jaar, Ursula Biemann, Jarman

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