Sunset Kino: A performative essay by Pablo Martínez-Zárate

Impressions on Colonialism. Notes on an Unfinished History
A performative essay by Pablo Martínez-Zárate (MX)
2025, 60 min
30.07.2025 21:00
Introduction by Mirela Baciak, Salzburger Kunstverein. Followed by a Q&A with Pablo Martínez-Zárate and Mirela Baciak.

A poetic excavation of power, memory, and resistance, Impressions on Colonialism weaves personal experience with historical and geopolitical fragments to explore the lingering force of colonial structures in the present. Performed live through image, sound, and voice, the piece unfolds as a cinematic essay that resists linearity—inviting the audience into a landscape of haunted histories, fragile intimacies, and unresolved futures.

Pablo Martínez-Zárate is a Mexican filmmaker, artist, and researcher working at the intersection of memory, territory, and experimental media. His practice explores the poetics of resistance through hybrid forms that blend documentary, interactive narratives, live cinema, and critical pedagogy. He is the author of Eccentric Pedagogy: Artistic Research in Times of Crisis and founder of IberodocsLab, a platform for documentary experimentation in Latin America. His work has been presented internationally across festivals, museums, and academic contexts. Martínez-Zárate’s current focus lies in performative essay film and artistic research as a mode of political inquiry.