Botanica Nahualli

Botanica Nahualli is a decolonial collective consisting of U.S.-based scholars, artists, and nepantleres (liminal beings) who turn toward spirituality and art in search of rēsistance and liberation. The collective embarks on projects that seek to bring people closer to the Earth and to each other by imagining a more equitable future that could exist in the future.

PROjects

• Wachale Cineteca, a cinematheque in East Los Angeles with critical spectatorship central to its format.

• Cine Nepantla, an academic cinematheque at UC Berkeley which turns to the archives to uncover strategies of rēsistance.

• A Xicane Gaze, a YouTube Channel that functions as a recommendation engine (like Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes, etc.) while exposing movie lovers to cinemas that live in the margins (E.g., Chicano Cinema, New Queer Cinema, New Maricón Cinema, etc.) through the lens of a Xicane gaze (a point of view that is decolonial, anticolonial, U.S. Latinx, queer, and feminist).