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Three short films

Film still from FORDLANDIA: Fallen crosses in a deserted cemetery.

Fri 26.08.
20:00

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

Perpétuo

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

Apiyemiyekî?

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

Fordlandia Malaise

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.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media