Description:
“Vade Ultra” is a film that explores perspectives on filming practices, whether horizontal or vertical. The latter method is suggested as a predominantly popular form of creative cinema. Cultural phenomena can redefine images, which may carry benevolent or belligerent connotations. We navigate through acts and darkness, groping in the shadows as we attempt to re-establish ourselves by reinterpreting icons and cultural production modes. Whether the cinema is presented vertically or horizontally is of little importance. What truly matters is the reinvention of something that can be deemed new, which requires detoxifying ourselves from our own behaviors. The creative process is intertwined with both mistakes and successes. Everything is uncertain, transient, and risky. Iconoclasts and other formalisms often remain ambiguous. An Indigenous Santa Maria serves as a guerrilla invention, resisting the oppressive governmental regime. The women in “Vade Ultra” poetically oscillate between nihilism and hopelessness, where the camera serves as their weapon, creating an imaginary world that includes both horizontalists and verticalists, amidst formalism and iconoclasm.
Originally conceived as a triptych, this version is presented as a single channel film.
