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Vade Ultra

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:24:00 +0000

“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.

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Plenitude / Entirety

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:35:01 +0000

The abandonment of individuals by societies and their governments is both unjustifiable and unforgivable.

The Planet Earth will continue to shelter the Kingdoms of Barbarism and Insanity as long as there is a single human being insisting on not recognizing the integrity of everyone else, near or far from you. A single individual “from below” can implode the entire civilizing process, sucking it to its level and annihilating any efforts to achieve social justice, peace and planetary harmony.

There is an urgent need to recognize the fullness, the fragility and the power to add each one and everyone.

Nobody is despicable, nobody is harmless, all life is of value. No nation is despicable, no nation is harmless, every nation is of value. No ethnicity is despicable, no ethnicity is harmless, all ethnicity is of value. No people are despicable, no people are harmless, all people are of value.Either we assume, each of us, our responsibility to the whole, taking care to respect it, or we will be much closer to our own extinction than we could imagine.

Co-author: Luiz Gomide
Music: Ismália (from a poem by Alphonsus de Guimaraens)
Composition: Luiz Gomide
Arrangement and piano: Rodrigo Lana
Video: Guilherme Bergamini
Editing: Guilherme Dutra
English translation of the poem: Nelson Ascher
English translation of credits: Tiago Gambogi & Margaret Swallow
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article I.
Performer: Anonymous

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Andromeda – The Girl Who Smoked Soap

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:11:40 +0000

Andromeda is a performance film that plays with texts and iconography in a postmodern manner. A combination of texts written by author CarlosMagno Rodríguez and his co-authors Giselle Werneck, Lindbergh Fernandez, interspersed with quotes from Lucien Ducasse’s Isidora (Fragments from the Songs of Maldoror) combined with biblical quotations and lengthy discussions on pollution, etc. Read out by a character with a megaphone, they are no longer outrageous, transgressive or liberating, just twisted literature of enchantment, with no morals. The characters pose for an iconographic composition close to the Christian and Renaissance traditions, a kind of imagined “Last Supper”.

Andromeda is a cinematographic reality, created for questioning disparate, paradoxical iconographic models, criticizing modern society as if numb and frozen in front of the All-Seeing Eye-the camera’s eye. This also applies to music, such as the accordion music “Kanonen’s Song” and “The Ballad of a Soldier’s Wife” by Kurt Keil (co-author of Bertolt Brecht).

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