The Bell, the Digger, and the Tropical Pharmacy (2013)
This video was shot in a US-owned pharmaceutical plant in Cidra, Puerto Rico. It records the sounds and movements of a “sonic digger,” whose bucket has been replaced by a large cast-iron bell that destroys the interior of the building. The modified machine is thus transformed into a “counter-memorial” instrument that marks the occasion of the closure of this significant workplace, a site associated with progress and health. Through music, it excavates the historical connection between medicine, sickness and cure, and the neocolonial framework of US-Puerto Rico relations embedded in the very fabric of the building.
Directors: Guillermo Calzadilla, Jennifer Allora.
| Directing | Guillermo Calzadilla | Director |
| Directing | Jennifer Allora | Director |
