A series of short films that consider the problems with Brazil's attempts to modernise and the impact that has had on its population.
Have you ever seen a river stop?
Pedro Neves Marques, YWY a androide, 2017. Still from video. Courtesy of the artist.
From the deadly failures of a dam to the construction of a highway as a tool for genocide, this film programme explores the failures of past, present and future modernising infrastructures in Brazil through the eyes of contemporary video art. The films attempt to sink-in with the flowing of rivers as a source of life, embodiment, ecosystems and the role of water within communities. As poet Daniel Munduruku recently wrote, ‘Have you ever seen the river stop when it runs into some difficulty?’
YWY, a androide [YWY, the Android], Pedro Neves Marques (7min), 2017.
A Gente Rio [The People River], Carolina Caycedo (29 min), 2016.
Kaapora – O Chamado Das Matas, Yawar (Olinda Muniz Wanderley), (20min), 2020.
Equilíbrio, Yawar (Olinda Muniz Wanderley), (11min), 2020.
Part of BRAZIL FOOTPRINT 0.0, a week-long online festival that explores Brazil’s specific perspective on the global mobilisation against climate inequalities, in the context of the UN’s upcoming COP26 conference. Curated by Francesca Laura Cavallo for the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent in partnership with the Barbican Centre.
