Rodrigues Carlosmagno – Cyland Video Archive https://videoarchive.cyland.org Video Archive Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.25 Vade Ultra https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/vade-ultra/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:24:00 +0000 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=20742 “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 … Continue reading "Vade Ultra"

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]]> “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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]]> Andromeda – The Girl Who Smoked Soap https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/andromeda-the-girl-who-smoked-soap/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:11:40 +0000 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=20718 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 … Continue reading "Andromeda – The Girl Who Smoked Soap"

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]]> 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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