Rivane Neuenschwander

The Tenant follows the trajectory of a soap bubble as it floats through the empty rooms of a house under renovation. The bubble never bursts as it drifts from one room to the next in a permanent state of suspension.

After the Brazilian carnival, in the melancholy aftermath of Ash Wednesday, the ants begin their own profane, multicolored feast to the rhythm of matchbox samba.

15’00” | DV | Colour | 2002 | Brazil Screening Format: DV Filming Format: Super 8/ DV Original Soundtrack: O Grivo Original Script: Cao Guimarães & Rivane Neuenshwander Directed, Photographed and edited by: Cao Guimarães This film was born in collaboration with artist Rivane Neuenschwander. The action consisted in randomly distributing pieces of a world map inside books standing in the bookshelves of Stockholm’s public library. The possible correlations between any place in the world and a book (or a page in book) are mysteries safeguarded by the destiny of the library’s regular visitors.

2001 Duration: 8’00” Screening Format: DV Filming Format: Super 8 Original Soundtrack: O Grivo Photographed and edited by: Cao Guimarães Directed by: Cao Guimarães e Rivane Neuenshwander "Word/World" is a video about communication. The uncannily organised world of ants is faced with two strange objects/actions. To speak and to eat: everything goes through the mouth.

"Sopro" expresses the relation between what's in and outside. The translucid form of an everchanging bubble shows the world to which it belongs and also that which is contained by it.

(2000) 5’30” | DV | P&B | 2000 | Brazil Screening Format: DV Filming Format: Super 8 Photographed and Edited by: Cao Guimarães Directed by: Cao Guimarães e Rivane Neuenschwander "Blow" expresses the relationship between what is inside and what is outside. The multi-formed translucence of a bubble exhibits the world that contains it and is contained by it. The bubble that never bursts is a metaphor of the continuity of things.