Naomi Rincón-Gallardo

In Verses of Filth, a disoriented Mesoamerican deity has become a scavenger digging in the wasted land in search of residues of fragmented bodies and cultural debris. Together with a gang of vultures, she sparks a residual insurrection of a brigade of undomesticated arms and underworld creatures who reclaim to become undead in search for touch and pleasure. In Mesoamerican worldviews, vultures are sacred creatures who access the underworld when they enter the head into a corpse. They are the great purifiers who eat the debris, what is rotten and death. The arms raising from the tomb insist on clenching into a fist as a sign of protest, but on the other hand they try to connect with others, in the search of caressing others, repairing, documenting, snapping and reading words that give an account of their existence. The title Verses of Filth refers to a Nahua funerary chant, Tzocuicatl, which was an eschatological ritual aiming to drain the filth and stench of the death body as well as accompanying the pain caused by the death of a beloved person.

Directed, scripted and edited by: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Cast: LA CHAKALA, ADAN FLORES LA NAÚSEA ABUNDA, YASMÍN GALLARDO, CARLA DÍAZ SANDOVAL, MARCELA PONCE VALADEZ, NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Cinematography and camera: MASHA GODOVANNAYA
Electronic Sound Design and Psychotronic Engineering: ENRIQUE ARRIAGA
Incidental Music: ESTEBAN KING
Music Composition: ESTEBAN KING and FEDERICO SCHMUCLER

SONGS

“COATLICUE”
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Music: ESTEBAN KING
Sound effects: ENRIQUE ARRIAGA
Vocals: MARÍA EMILIA MARTÍNEZ

“THEY BURIED ME UPSIDE DOWN”
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Vocals: LA CHAKALA
Beat: ENRIQUE ARRIAGA and ESTEBAN KING

“VULTURE”
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Music: FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Vocals: MARÍA EMILIA MARTÍNEZ

“DISPOSSES YOURSELF, BRISTLE, SHAKE IT OFF, TWITCH, SHUDDER”
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Music: FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Vocals: UNX

Drone operator and still photography: ENRIQUE MACÍAS
Choreography: MARCELA PONCE VALDÉZ
Props and masks: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO
Seamstress: PIEDAD HERNÁNDEZ

Verses of Filth was shot in Milpa Alta and La Magdalena Contreras, CDMX

Video Produced with the support/stimulus of the Support System For Creation and Cultural Projects (FONCA)

In collaboration with Parallel Oaxaca
Executive producer: OLIVER MARTÍNEZ KANDT