Where to sit at the dinner table?
2013. 28', video, color, sound. Spoken in English and Portuguese.
"Não tinhamos especulação/ We did not have speculation
Mas tinhamos adivinhação / Yet we had divination
Tinhamos Política, que é a ciência da distribuição / We had Politics, which is the science of distribution
E um sistema social-planetário / And a social-planetary system"
- Oswald de Andrade, in Manifesto Antropófago, 1928.
An experimental film essay telling a tale about ecology, notions of energy and economics, from equilibrium to the necessity for growth, excess, and the continuous production of an outside. From time to time this story is interrupted by narratives about rituals of anthropophagy, or cannibalism, in Brazil in the early 16th century, an imaginary that builds the film's visuals, be it microfilms of sixteenth century books and etchings by André Thevet, Jean de Léry, and Hans Staden, or museum materials from or about Amerindian socio-cosmologies.
Directed and edited by Pedro Neves Marques
Cast (voice-over): Eglantina Monteira, Vítor de Andrade. Voice overs by: Ariana Couvinha, Gonçalo Gama Pinto, Pedro Simões, and Don Patterson
Sound by edro Sousa
Oritingal OST by Pedro Neves Marques
Shot in Brazil and Portugal
With the kind support of Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Spain, Companhia das Culturas, Portugal, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
2013. 28', video, color, sound. Spoken in English and Portuguese.
"Não tinhamos especulação/ We did not have speculation
Mas tinhamos adivinhação / Yet we had divination
Tinhamos Política, que é a ciência da distribuição / We had Politics, which is the science of distribution
E um sistema social-planetário / And a social-planetary system"
- Oswald de Andrade, in Manifesto Antropófago, 1928.
An experimental film essay telling a tale about ecology, notions of energy and economics, from equilibrium to the necessity for growth, excess, and the continuous production of an outside. From time to time this story is interrupted by narratives about rituals of anthropophagy, or cannibalism, in Brazil in the early 16th century, an imaginary that builds the film's visuals, be it microfilms of sixteenth century books and etchings by André Thevet, Jean de Léry, and Hans Staden, or museum materials from or about Amerindian socio-cosmologies.
Directed and edited by Pedro Neves Marques
Cast (voice-over): Eglantina Monteira, Vítor de Andrade. Voice overs by: Ariana Couvinha, Gonçalo Gama Pinto, Pedro Simões, and Don Patterson
Sound by edro Sousa
Oritingal OST by Pedro Neves Marques
Shot in Brazil and Portugal
With the kind support of Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Spain, Companhia das Culturas, Portugal, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal