History of Fire Prayer of Death Genesis Creation and Destruction Irving Gamboa, 2017

16mm treated celluloid: some of the film was hand processed and treated with various chemicals and bathed in the foundfootage was buried in moist soil for 2 years, unearthed, treated with chemicals and rephotographed: This piece is a film about the history of mankind: It begins with an empty and inhabitable landscape where the mystical and mythological sound of the divine prayer of creation is heard: followed by the appearance of the written form as language and numbers, the sudden appearance of primitive man as hunter and killer, and his evolution as a machine of repetitive movement: Sisyphus as an absurd working presence: The over productivity of man leads him to burn his world and ultimately to attempt to save his wrongdoing through impractical and primitive methods: only to be left with faint whispers of hope and ultimately: