![]() ![]() Attentive to his environment and wishing to penetrate mysteries, Man constantly invents new tools: some of them are technologically sophisticated while others are more empirical. Under the starry ceiling lies a sublunar world, the one we inhabit and which we thoroughly scrutinize and explore. Halfway between anthropological research and pataphysical tales, the two artists become observers of a world in which magic and spirits are indistinguishable from the real. ![]() Their 16 mm films stage enigmatic short stories (here, a mysterious shamanic dance with a serpent there, an animal skeleton in movement elsewhere, the exploration of a rocky recess lit by the glow of a flaming hand), numerous strange sequences that seem to capture paranormal experiences or ancestral rites. Unexplained phenomena thus give rise to myths and feed the imagination, as in the artworks of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva.
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