Chaves and Mantilla: A Certain Tale

In a contemplative artist’s video, Raimond Chaves and Gilda Mantilla juxtapose still and animated photographs with text, music, and sound effects to investigate the archive and its context, observing its tendency to “leak knowledge continuously” and contemplating the effect of digitization. The artists represent the changing ways in which we interpret archival material—in whatever format it exists—as a struggle, framed in aggressive terms. “Will we end up being eaten by images?” they ask.