Vessels: A Visual Journey Through Latin America’s Open Veins | Screening and Talkback

Join us for a powerful evening of art, memory, and conversation as we present the Vancouver premiere of Vessels, an animated short film by Cuban artist Yaimel López, with music composition and sound design by Alexandre Klinke.

Inspired by The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, this animated film explores the violent legacy of colonization and exploitation across Latin America through rich visual storytelling and sound, a reflection of a region whose history has been written in blood, but also in pride.

This free screening will be followed by a talkback conversation featuring artist Yaimel López, composer Alexandre Klinke, and storyteller and equity consultant for Film and TV Coral Santana, moderated by Miret Rodriguez.

About the Artists and Panellists

Yaimel López Zaldívar is a Cuban multimedia artist based in Vancouver, Canada since 2019. His practice includes experimental animation, printmaking, design and also education. Graduated from the Superior Institute of Design in Havana (2010). He has collaborated as an artist and designer with several organizations. In 2022, he was nominated for the Lind Prize (Polygon Gallery) for his work in experimental animation.

Alexandre Klinke is a Brazilian composer and media artist, based in Vancouver since 2008. His work encompasses various fields, including video, multimedia art, music for film, sound design, and live music performance. The appreciation of sound is at the core of his practice.

He releases music under his own name, as well as using the alias Playback Head, an experimental project that ranges from jazz to electronic and ambient genres, merging traditional instruments with field recordings, sound-making objects, and electronic devices.

Coral Santana is an Afro-Dominican storyteller, community organizer and equity consultant for Film and TV based in K'emk'emeláy̓ (Vancouver). They have developed cultural programming focused on exploring Blackness, Queerness and Latinidad for various organizations, including the Museum of Anthropology and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Coral holds a BA in Film Studies with a minor in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

Miret Rodriguez is the creative director of Curated Tastes and is the former VP of VLACC. She holds an MBA in art and culture management from the Superior School of Commerce in Paris and a BA Major in Art History from UBC. Miret relies on art and the artists who make it to navigate through cultural dislocation and hybridity. Since 2020,

Miret has been interviewing Latinx artists in Canada about their immigration stories and their ways of expressing their experiences through art. This led her to curate Volver (to return, to become) in 2022 at Cityscape Community Artspace in North Vancouver.

In Partnership with Emily Carr University of Art + Design