Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
WHEN_WE_MEET_THE_WORLD
When We Encounter The World
WHEN WE MEET THE WORLD
WHEN WE MEET THE WORLD
When We Encounter The World
Leonardo Pirondi, Zazie Ray-Trapido
Portugal, Estados Unidos
2023
Filme
Curta-Metragem
In 1934, an experiment was started by a couple of amateur scientists. Named after a genus of moths, Project Automeris placed a group of young children in a dense forest and left them to fend for themselves. On return visits, the couple would show films they had made themselves, accompanied by live music, depicting the outside world. To them, these images were a perfect replica of the reality they had seen on their expeditions. However, the films were carefully framed, edited and manipulated to induce transformation and trigger the development of a new society. This film revisits the remains of Project Automeris and recreates one of these films, made using the few remaining editing notes.
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edition
8° Festival ECRÃ
date and
time
Estação NET Botafogo
28/06/2024
20h
duration in min
11
debut
Première Brasileira
classification
indicative
L / Free for all audiences / Livre Para Todos Os Públicos
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Leonardo Pirondi, Zazie Ray-Trapido
Leonardo Pirondi
Leonardo Pirondi is a Portuguese-Brazilian filmmaker. His films explore the infinite abyss between multiple versions of reality through unconventional structures of documentary, experimental and narrative modes. Much of his work uses analog film techniques to create, inhabit and document worlds that explore sociopolitical developments between history, imagination, myth and technology.
His films have been screened worldwide, including in the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Viennale, BFI London, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Guanajuato, Slamdance, True/False, Ambulante, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, EMAF and others. Some of his films are held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. He holds a BA in Film/Video from CalArts, is a Sundance Institute Fellow, and is a recipient of the Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund and the Tim Disney Award for Excellence in Storytelling Arts.
Zazie Ray-Trapido
Zazie Ray-Trapido is a Philadelphia-based filmmaker and producer. Her films expand traditional documentary and narrative formats by engaging with analog film techniques, archives, and performance. Her practice explores relationships between memory, ideology, and the environment. Her work has been screened at festivals and venues around the world, including the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Viennale, and more. She holds a BFA from Bard College and an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
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