Three short films
Fri 26.08.
20:00
Cinema
Arsenal 1
These short films explore memory as an instrument to question official narratives and conceive a place in history for those unseen along its course in creative fashion.
Director
Lorran Dias
Brazil / 2018
24 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version with English subtitles
In PERPÉTUO, Silvia and Alex have moved back in together. As they try to get on with life, invisible forces insist on holding them in a reality that reenacts the past. Defying time and space in a decolonial effort to expand the boundaries of possibility, PERPÉTUO is a poetic call for self-determination from those on the fringes of the world.
Director
Ana Vaz
Brazil, France / 2020
28 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version with English subtitles
An archive containing over 3000 drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari during their first literacy process narrates how this people native to the Amazon came into contact with "civilized men". During these exercises, the most recurrent question posed by the Waimiri-Atroari was: why did Kamña (“the civilized”) kill Kiña (Waimiri-Atraori)? Apiyemiyekî? (Why?)
Director
Susana de Sousa Dias
Portugal / 2019
40 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version with English subtitles
Combining archival imagery, drone footage, testimonies, myths and songs, the film is an intriguing affective cartography of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rainforest in 1928 whose inhabitants reject the ghost town label and demand the right to tell their own story while looking for glimpses of neglected presences.
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