María Molina Peiró

As the world slips from his grasp, a filmmaker clings to the stories of others like driftwood—trying to build something that will float.

On the Red Planet, a robot searches for signs of life. Light-years away, beneath mountains of mineral waste, humans look for an unknown biosphere, the remains of a mining settlement and the village of their childhood. Río Tinto reveals a complex ecosystem that blurs the boundaries between scientific exploration and capitalist exploitation and between the living and the non-living. Are humans merely a construction of microorganisms to continue their mission of spreading life across the universe?