nucbeade

Slope, Gorge, Depression is a film that explores the lines of desire of Las Machotas—two inselbergs or isolated rock hills deviating from the central axis of the Sierra de Guadarrama—to examine the connections between territory, mental health, and sex-gender dissidence. The project is rooted in the artists’ personal experience, which is marked by anxiety, depression and what they term ‘queer sorrow’, a feeling stemming from their rift with the rectitude of cis-heterosexual norms; a disoriented way of being that willingly embraces the unexpected, while simultaneously generating wounds.

Taking eco-psychology, ecology, queer theory, autobiographical film narration, and profound listening practices as its starting point, Slope, Gorge, Depression aims to create and interweave porous sounds and images that do not just represent but also dialogue with and between the mountains and their multiple memories—personal, geological, animal, vegetable, and spectral.

Biography

nucbeade is a collective comprising Ventura García and Andrea Beade. The creative and vital bond they form informs a search for queer genealogies within the Spanish State, the creation of counter-hegemonic archives and imaginaries, and the invocation of absence.

nucbeade spans audiovisual languages, installation, performance art, and collective practices, offering a situated and affective gaze that awakens alternative ways of knowing and remembering.

Their work has been displayed internationally at festivals and museums such as La Casa Encendida (Generación 2021); the Young Art Gallery of the Community of Madrid (Plastic Arts Circuits); Tabakalera (San Sebastian); Matadero Madrid; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin); the Alcances Documentary Film Festival (Cadiz); the Festival of Málaga; and the Márgenes Festival (Madrid).

The nucbeade collective is a recipient of a Three-month Residency for Environmental Projects (2025).