“I cannot see what I believe, I cannot believe what I see”

Cinema Sensate presents: A work-in-progress screening by María Fernandez Pello

A documentary film about the relationship between medicine, media, and ecology. Drawing from fieldwork in US laboratories, the film shows moments in which scientists engage bodily surfaces beyond their literal meaning, as interfaces between the inside and the outside, the perceived and the imagined, the human and the more-than-human.

Bio: Maria Fernández Pello is a visual artist and researcher. Her work engages with questions at the intersection of art, science, and the humanities, and often involves experimentation with different forms of media. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies citizen science initiatives to treat chronic diseases, and how these practices challenge assumptions about medicine, ecology, and data.