Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
Neither Christmas nor Parnamirim
Neither Christmas nor Parnamirim
Jefferson Cabral
Brazil
2021
Digital Installation / Interactive Art
Medium-length
Neither Natal, Nor Parnamirim is an image research project composed of two diptych videos that simulate the routes of two bus lines that connect the conurbated cities of Natal and Parnamirim (RN). An investigation and excerpt of urban life digitized in images, an appropriation and compilation of images from Google Street View and YouTube.
The routes are organized in layers of space, time and image, on one side the perspective of the camera car (Google Street View) that photographs the cities from a supposedly neutral and elevated point of view, which echoes the experiments of the first cinema, in which the camera was positioned on top of cars, trams and trains, recording the urban life of European metropolises for the world. On the other, the images of vloggers, amateurs, cameramen and passers-by who archive their lives at all times, while at the same time recording their experience with the city for virtual and collective sharing on the internet (YouTube).
Nem Natal, Nem Parnamirim is based on the projection and the bet on this collectivity, whether from the simulacrum of a public transport that echoes a common point of view of all of us passengers, or even from the simulation of a continuous daily life, made in the montage of images that represent spaces and an anachronistic time that organizes the history between the two cities.
general information
edition
5th ECRÃ Festival
venues
Online
date and time
duration in min
2 of 30
premiere
Brazilian Premiere 5th ECRÃ Festival
indicative classification
12 years / Not recommended for children under twelve years old / Not recommended for children under twelve years old
conversation/chat
tags
art, big data, hybrid documentary, found footage, quarantine, web
trailer/teaser/excerpt
Jefferson Cabral
Jefferson Cabral works as a researcher, audiovisual director and video editor in audiovisual projects in the areas of visual arts and cinema. He has a degree in History, a specialization in Cinema and a master's degree in Media Studies (PPgEM) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He is currently in the final year of his undergraduate degree in Social Communication: Audiovisual, at the same institution.
For the past four years, he has been developing audiovisual projects for local and national public notices. In 2018, he approved two projects at FUNCARTE, namely, the research Cidade/Memória: Paisagem Audiovisual de Natal (FIC 2018) and the short film Mãe Elfiza (Cine Natal 2018) in the category of debut directors. In 2019, he developed, together with producer and director Diana Coelho, the Sessão Teia-Brasil, a project to exhibit and discuss contemporary Brazilian films in Natal (RN).
In 2020, he approved six projects – in the areas of cinema and visual arts – under the Aldir Blanc Law of Rio Grande do Norte, projects of: acquisition of equipment for audiovisual post-production; development and research of short films; production of experimental videos; and production of editing workshops. He was also awarded, in 2020, for the production of the video arts Ida Praça, Volta Alecrim (Edital Poti-Cultural Ação Sesc 2020) and Grau na Paulista, 1 desktopfilme (Edital Prêmio Funarte RespirArte 2020), and the short film Para onde envio esta carta? (Edital Itaú Cultural – Arte como Respiro: Múltiplos Editais de Emergência 2020). He is currently dedicated to the creation, curation and artistic direction of the online exhibition Natal: CinemaCidade.
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