• COSMOPOETICS OF THE (IN)VISIBLE •

“There are other worlds they have not told you of. They wish to speak to you.” - Sun Ra

A reimagining of Oakland’s Lake Merritt - the central social space of the city - as an otherworldly site of great refuge and transformation.

Video essay in three temporalities for a memory exercise. As much as our body is made of 70% water, continuous flow, pure movement, how can we forget this dance? Travel memories, liquid transposition of physical sensations to the virtuality of the algorithmic screen. Between dream and secret, to be a river here is staying fresh, is to persevere and have the courage to stay alive.

Reunion Island, French colony. In order to honor a promise made to her mother, a woman disembarks in search of her father – The Mouth – and receives the only preliminary news that he has died. Cilaos is the name of this funereal ceremony in which frame, cut and word, obsessed by the timbres of the maloya rhythm and by the ferocious presence of the personage, provoke the vertigo of a modern musical destined to the resurrection. The musician Christine Salem lends to the film body, voice, music and co-authoring of the texts.

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(by Luís Fernando Moura)