Miles Marchan
Filmed at ankle height, thousands of legs and feet from a protest march pass by, shifting in rhythm. Young legs, old legs, bare legs, legs in tights, legs in jeans, shuffling along in sandals, boots and trainers. Faces remain unseen. Banners are rarely legible. Almost all visual markers of the protest’s intent are excluded from the image. Miles Marchan is not a statement of any particular cause. Instead, Díaz Morales presents a portrait of the crowd, of countless individuals driven by a shared energy and moving for a moment as a single body. He filmed various demonstrations in Argentina, focusing on the movement of the whole. The resulting image, somewhere between fiction and reality, is as poetic as it is activist.
Miles Marchan is shown on a ten-metre-wide screen. The vast horizontal frame and the low camera angle underscore the difference in scale between the viewer and the collective force of thousands voting with their feet.