A slide projection with voice-over about Francisco Candido Xavier (1910-2002) – a Brazilian civil servant who became famous as a psychic medium and psychographer, and whose version of Spiritism was deeply utopian and conservative. This installation brings out the societal fault lines underlying his practice, intertwining Xavier, the military dictatorship and its resistance.
The other films shown within Blackout Installations
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Non-chronological History
Prapat Jiwarangsan IFFR 2019 0The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors.
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Landscape Series #1
Nguyen Trinh Thi IFFR 2019 0A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation.
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Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
Cauleen Smith IFFR 2019 0A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestral’ arrangement.
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestral’ arrangement.
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Mneme
Raha Raissnia IFFR 2019 0In Greek mythology, Mneme is memory personified. This installation is a projection onto a painting where textures are subtly combined.
- Filmmaker
- Tamar Guimarães
- Country
- Brazil
- Year
- 2008
- Medium
- 35mm
- Length
- 0’
- Language
- no dialogue
