Our first object of inquiry and care should be life. We know the reason for that as we are living beings in a situation in which the conditions of life are endangered. What has no place in this ecological discourse is death. The fact that death is difficult to acknowledge is not new, but in our contemporary situation, death has a new face. Gold and Ashes extends beyond representation to become an intimate act of excavation that proposes to mediate-materially, politically, and metaphysically-the reappropriation of death as power and our sovereignty as mortal beings in the private and social spheres. A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack and images of the film Ouro e Cinza (2025) featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas in collaboration with Isabel Ramos, Isabel Pettermann and sound by Miguel Martins.