ENXOFRE / SULFUR by Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes | Brasil, Portugal | 2024

ENXOFRE / SULFUR by Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes | Brasil, Portugal | 2024

Duration: 00:14:44

I am the dead. I am the living. 

ARTISTS, DIRECTORS : Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes
CAST : Nayara Varela, Roxy Visan
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Paulo Menezes
SOUND : Carlos Abreu
MUSIC : Miguel Gonçalves
PRODUCTION : Rita Santos Silva, Frederico Mesquita
PRODUCER : Terratreme/João Matos

CONTACTS / LINKS : https://cargocollective.com/migka  @karenakerman  @miguel.seabra.lopes

Statement (text by Pablo Gamba in ‘Los Experimentos’)
“Sulfur defamiliarizes the sentimentalism that typically characterizes children’s stories in mainstream cinema. However, it also leads us toward ecology through an unexpected path of experimentation. It is a stimulus to both feeling and thinking that contrasts with today’s films, where we find explicit instructions on what we are supposed to think. The storyline and the audiovisual rhythm of this film cast a love spell for life to triumph over death. Thus, it also stands against the science applied to extractivism that created the film’s hellish landscape, relying instead on cultural references, imagination, sensations, and the powers of cinema—which is scientific technology, but also magical art.”

Bio
Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes have worked together since 2010, with film and video, mixing fiction, documentary and experimental. Karen works mainly as a film editor [films and series], Miguel as a screenwriter and analog collage artist.

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