Conversation with the filmmaker after the screening of his film "El Sentir de las Montañas” (The Feel of the Mountains, 2022) curated by Flatness at FormaHQ on 14 Jan 2023.

“El Sentir de las Montañas” (The Feel of the Mountains, 2022) by Tomás Fernandez Vértiz is a work made with members of the Latin American community in London.

The film is divided in 3 chapters, through which we meet different people. Trying to understand more about some of the different situations that Latin American people have experienced or are experiencing in London, the film is an exploration of arrival, community and healing.
 We hear the story of an arrest, we meet a volleyball playing community in New Cross and take a look at an alternative therapy. While all the stories are different, they are linked together through conversations of time and memory.

Tomás Fernández Vértiz (b. 1994, Mexico City) is a London based artist who works with photography and moving image. Tomás uses the documentary form to explore landscape, community and migration and the circumstances in which they co-exist.

“Through [moving] image, my intention is to immerse the viewer in a sensorial space, in which I invite the audience to question the political reality in which we live.”

Q&A between Tomás Fernandez Vértiz and Shama Khanna

Richard, who has been a guardian gardener at Peveril Gardens, and Shama Khanna, founder of Flatness in residence at Forma and Peveril Gardens in early 2023, discuss how the garden came to be and different ways of accessing this special oasis in the heart of South London.