The Nomad
The Nomad

The Nomad is a short film animation of artist Enrique Agudo in collaboration with Miwa Espinoza and Michelle Recio.

Shown in a public screening of the National Endowment for the Arts and the SCI-Arc Channel Film series "Queer Perspectives in Architecture", the three-part, short-form film series examines diverse perspectives on aesthetics, practice, alternative histories, and possible futures for queer architecture. The Nomad is a vessel traveling across the American landscape that houses a matriarchal clan, with the purpose of rewilding and biodiversifying its surroundings. This chariot is more than a home, and a tool, and a form of transport - it portrays the notion that we are guests in a land that cannot be owned. In our world, plants shape human existence and The Nomad reveals a whimsical technological mediation between us and our vegetal environment. Human relationships to Nature are molded by a culture whose definition of “Nature” is biased around homophobia, classicism, sexism, racism and xenophobia to justify its exploitation. Thus, The Nomad presents a speculative illustration of the potential for Queer environmentalism.
Credits
Director ENRIQUE AGUDO Creative Director ENRIQUE AGUDO Art Directors MIWA ESPINOZA & MICHELLE RECIO The Nomad JO BARAJAS Executive Producer SARAH J. VILLAREAL Rendering Producer MOHAMMAD SOLEI Editor VLADIMIR ZELINSKIY Sound JULES FOSFORO Poem “The Nomad” Written and Recited by JENEVIEVE TING Costume Design ENRIQUE AGUDO Digital Costumes ADIELLA BASCHE 3D Scanning by HUMAN ENGINE Grooming by MICHELLE RECIO
Special thanks to
Matea Friend, Gina Crow, Pierce S Myers, Shuruq Tramontini & Andre Zakhya IE University @ieuniversity @iehumanities The Art of Elysium @theartofelysium National Endowment for The Arts @neaarts SCIArc @sciarc

The Nomad is the goddess of Home, of seeds and spores, of a sense of place. She is leader with a calling to return stolen land back to the Earth, on a quest towards geoengineering the planet to rehabilitation through reforestation and decontamination.

She has made it her purpose to gather a collective of matriarchs to join a shift to a new kind of pastoral. Technology is her tool, the planet is her hurting sibling. Home is the result of a reciprocal relationship between her group and the landscape.

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