Flora Guerra

Mesmerized by the image of an active volcano on the other side of the world, a woman sets out to meet her fury. On the way, without being able to return, she finds herself in an extraordinary pregnancy, starting the account of the journey that gives shape to this play-film, a journey between theater and cinema inspired by the narratives of fantastic realism.

A big bang. There is no sign of what happened to the outside world, however, before living there becomes unsustainable, Helena decides to follow through with her plan: to kill the president.

The screams of despair in an amusement park foreshadow the scandal that love is. Looping, by Maick Hannder, uses photographs to enact the conflict of gazes between the one who loves and the one who is loved. Are we also obsessed by this character who’s raised by affection to the status of entity?

 “Look closely at the mountains!”: the phrase was coined by artist Manfredo de Souzanetto during Brazil’s years of dictatorhsip. Mining activities were destroying the environment in the state of Minas Gerais in the south west of the country. Through editing, Ana Vaz draws parallels between this region and the very distant Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern France, also marked by over three centuries of mining. On one side, eroded mountains plague its inhabitants with deadly landslides. Hollow and gutted, these mountains become the receptacles of a ghostly memory. On the other side, in France, mining waste stacks become mountains and reservoirs of biodiversity, where the frontier between nature and technology is now indiscernible.