The phantom island Hy-Brazil, believed to be located in the west of Ireland, triggers this meditation on the links between the great expeditions carried out during the 15th century and VR designers setting their sites on expanding and controlling a virtual “new world”. Using interviews, old maps, drawings, technological gadgets and computer simulation, Leonardo Pirondi tackles issues concerning the visible and the invisible, the role of imagination, and the Jupiterian expansion of physical frontiers.
– Cristina Álvarez López
Also in this combined programme
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I Am a Horse
Feminist rendering of a Korean birth dream through the tin-foil lithographic imagining of a mighty she-horse. -
Pantelleria
The bombing of Pantelleria during WWII triggers a compelling investigation into truth and fabrication. -
Growing Up Absurd
A disinterment of College F (aka Tolstoy College), an anarchist pedagogical space operating between 1969 and 1985. -
45th Parallel
An incisive monologue about the ways violence, terror, and contradiction reveal themselves at borders and checkpoints.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Brazil, USA
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
