
Daniela Szeőke
Tonada de Luna Llena
Tune of the Full Moon, 2022-25
Collage animation featuring endangered animals and natural resources from Venezuela.
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This animation is a tribute to Simon Diaz’s famous Tonada de Luna Llena (Tune of the Full Moon), a Venezuelan folk song dedicated to nature and relations with one another. This collage animation engages with themes of magic realism, environmentalism, extractivism, cultural hybridity, and Venezuelan spirituality. It features animated images scanned from Venezuelan and non-Venezuelan books of natural history, zoology, botany, geology, and art history.