Things Said Once by Esperanza Collado, is an artist statement and a tribute to film and cinema that acknowledges its history and our responsibility for its continuity in the present. Written as a poem, the text is built around the concept of cinema as experience in its spatial, temporal, and communitarian, or social dimensions. As a performance, Things Said Once is presented as a reading in an elaborated environment that includes a series of gestures, bodily actions and objects through which the text is revealed.

You can hear more from Esperanza Collado, as well as extracts from the original text on Episode 17 of our podcast series, a sharp prickled growth on flower stems, found on roses. thorns a sharp prickled growth on flower stems, found on roses.. You can read more on her website.