harold.

As a bench located in a park, Harold feels that life has run dull, and the emptiness of his days is only filled with envy and regrets. But if there were a moment to remember, this was the day he met Ivan. He came out of the blue and brought awareness; they shared loneliness and connected deeply as if they were one. Harold has never felt so important, so part of the world around him. Then Ivan left, and Harold came back empty. Remembering this encounter makes Harold reevaluate his empty life's narrative. Perhaps if he looks openly around, as Ivan did, he will find purpose in his existence. Perhaps there were even equally meaningful moments to relate.

Directed by: Alex Soares Duarte

Music by: Rafaele Andrade

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Dead zones.

‘Dead Zones’ is a documentary about oxygen deprived zones in the ocean and Dutch water quality. It was made on the occasion of the same-named multidisciplinary art-research project by visual artist Suzette Bousema.

Man-made dead zones are areas in coastal waters where micro algae blooms are fed by fertilizers from agriculture and other waste streams. When these blooms decompose, all oxygen is used by bacteria, and nothing is left for higher life forms. In the Baltic Sea, an are of 60.000 square meters is a dead zone. In the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi feeds a seasonal dead zone of about 23.000 square kilometers, as big as half of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands we have dead zones in a.o. Grevelingenmeer.

In the last 50 years, because of human impact and use of fertilizers for agriculture, the nutrient concentration has increased enormously, resulting in dead zones in coastal areas around the world. It has been calculated that now we have about 500 coastal dead zones, while in the 1950’s only about 50 existed.

Directed & produced by: Suzette Bousema

Music by: Rafaele Andrade

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PRIVADAS DE SUAS VIDAS.

A mother battling trauma faces a surreal nightmare when toilets mysteriously transform into killer beings, forcing her to confront both her personal demons and these bizarre supernatural threats.

#Horror #Comedy

TERRA ex machina.

Jerusalem is a city famous for its walls: the old-city walls, the infamous separation wall. Less known is an invisible wall that encircles the old-city and its surroundings. Centred on the Haram al-Sharif (or Temple Mount) and approx. 3km in diameter, a no-fly-zone is instantiated by a "geofence," a digital barrier programmed and controlled by DJI (the global leader of drone manufacturing), stretching from the ground into the skies to prevent drone flights above the holy structures and near-by neighborhoods. Terra ex Machina explores this instance of automated enforcement in Jerusalem’s urban space. We flew a drone along the geofence perimeter (approx.10km) from 7 launch points with its camera lens fixed on its center, the Golden Dome. Exporting over 10k sequential images we created a photogrammetric point cloud - materializing the invisible barrier as a spatial object: an urban ring of dense data surrounding a black void of missing data caused by the drone’s inability to penetrate the area. The result is an aerial view showing a digitally enforced blackout over one of the most volatile places in the Middle East. Against this machine-made “gaze from nowhere”, we embedded three point clouds of low altitude do-it-yourself aerial imageries, made using kites and balloons within the no-fly-zone - human-tethered, wind-guided, algorithms-resistant - filling the void with situated, community-grounded ways of seeing.

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Concept: Hagit Keysar & Ariel Caine
Drone photography: Hagit Keysar & Barak Brinker
Kite & Balloon photography: Hagit Keysar, Jeffrey Warren (PublicLab), Shai Efrat, Zemer Sat, children from Silwan and many other collaborators
Photogrammetry, GIS & Model Cinematics: Ariel Caine
Video Editing: Ariel Caine & Hagit Keysar
Interface Design simulations: Noya Antman Ron
Model Sound Composition: Francisco Mazza, Rafaele Andrade

#Exhibition #videoart

Thelema.

Thelema is a film based on experimentation and poetry mainly German romanticism. A kind of a free composition found in Hoelderlin's Wie wenn am Feiertag poem, this piece speaks about Nature and the human's will to be integrated to the Earth as well freedom and memories before death.

This film has been conceited as a 30 minutes film with two different sequences projected simultaneously as a split screen and two different chapters being read at the same time while the soundtrack is composed and performed by Rafaele Andrade.

Directed & produced by: Rodrigo Freitas

Music by: Rafaele Andrade

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