I WALK WHILE GLACIERS MELT
2024
Short Film 8’ 47”
This visual essay combines animation and live-action footage to guide the audience through the Andean mountains and snowy peaks of Cusco, Peru. The film reflects on the director’s walking as a means to embrace life’s fragility and constant transformation. It revisits Andean relational animism, rituals, miniatures, and pilgrimage to question modernity and our place in an era of melting glaciers, while celebrating the shared journey with others.
T R A I L E R
C R E D I T S
F O O T A G E
Drone Camera Shots: Kevin Marco Olivares Luna
Field Recordings: Lucia Lambarri Barberis
Photograph future airport of Chinchero: Isidro Lambarri Cerdeña
S O U N D
Sound Design: Joe Hirst & Lucia Lambarri Barberis
Sound mix: Joe Hirst
Voiceover: Lucia Lambarri Barberis
Ceremony Offering Voice Recording: Voice of Pascual Apaza during ceremonial earth offering.
Glacier Melting Recordings: Gustavo Valdivia Corrales from “Sonic Melting: Quelccaya”
Flute Performance: Jorge Cereceda
Final song: Performed by the Qhapac Qolla of the Quispicanchi Nation. Recorded at the Temple of Lord of Tayankani, 2023
A N I M A T I O N & C O N C E P T A R T
Lucia Lambarri Barberis
C A S T
Hands: Dexter Clifford-Keane
Ukuku: Yu-Hsuan Chen
T E X T L A Y O U T D E S I G N
Claudia Pesantes Cardoso
Still frame of the film
Still frame of the film
Still frame of the film
Still frame of the film
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