Sol Negro
Black Sun
Maureen Fazendeiro
- 2019
- 07:08
- Portugal
- EXP
- COL, B&W
Glimpses of the solar eclipse on 20 March 2015 in Lisbon. A letter from elsewhere recounts life in a distant land.
Works of any genre and nationality. A section that focuses on the search for new filmmaking signatures. Pieces that can hardly be catalogued in specific genres, and that dilute the traditional idea of cinema by exploring innovative avenues that are close to video art, documentary or avant-garde cinema.
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Maureen Fazendeiro
Glimpses of the solar eclipse on 20 March 2015 in Lisbon. A letter from elsewhere recounts life in a distant land.
Jorge Jácome
Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight to the origin of the species, at least.
Rainer Kohlberger
The basis of this work is constituted by flashing phantom images and ghostly digital scenes in which water surfaces and natural sites are vaguely discernable as shadowy figures appear and disappear: Kindred to cinema, the ghosts in the machine make their perpetual rounds and serve as a distant reminder of the vanished human beings. Kohlberger´s permutating abstractions render kaleidoscopic and hieroglyphic textures and envision toxic landscapes. The viewer travels through cellular cultures or stellar nebulae, through microcosms that seem to mirror the macrocosm – the universe.