Sangre Pesada (Heavy Blood) / Trailer

In Heavy Blood (2018), the devastated landscape of an open-pit mine in Vetagrande Zacatecas hosts ghostly creatures designing obstacles against progress. A miner and a phone sex worker’s proletarian lungs work under the demand of affective and mechanic performances for labor and pleasure. An extinct hummingbird looks for the nectar of flowers in a mining area, dwelling among crushed rocks and corrosive air. A lady with copper teeth that resembles Nahua destructive deity Tlantepuzilama, roars her non-human laments inside a cave. A gang of Mesoamerican voracious vagina-dentata-like creatures enjoy themselves and fulfill their toxic cravings, ingesting politics of inequality. Unwanted and desiring, they are trained for survival under harsh circumstances. But they want something more than survival. They want to play loud, they want to play too hard, in ecstasy.