Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
#tahitiria
#tahitiria
Amanda Palma
2020
Brazil
Average
Performance
Through the use of archival footage and screen-on-screen editing so fashionable in the early 1980s, 1982 examines Argentine media coverage of the Falklands War, exemplifying how propaganda can be used by governments to manipulate a country's opinions and lead it to believe its troops are winning a battle that was lost from the start.
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duration
min
40
indicative classification
Free
format
Digital
country
Brazil
year
2020
gender
Documentary / New Media
aspect ratio
16:9
premiere
Fringe Festival Amsterdam 2019
work data
Amanda Palma
With the mission of documenting healing amidst chaos, Amanda Palma crosses the boundaries between documentary, contemporary art and performance. She holds a degree in Communication from ESPM-RS, a postgraduate degree in Communication and Image from PUC-RJ, and research in the field of representation and representation of women in cinema. She has experience with themes related to human rights, culture and gender issues. She directed the documentaries As Mulheres e a Copa (2014) and Contra-Cultura do Estupro (2016), financed by UN Women, and the documentary Bateria da Mangueira - Escola Campeã licensed by Canal Brasil. She is co-director and editor of the film Elekô (2015), produced collaboratively by an all-female team and shown at dozens of national and international festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is the author and performer of the performance-documentary #taitiria, which won an award at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, a platform that reveals new artistic talents on the international performance scene. As an educator, she teaches the Collaborative Audiovisual workshop, in which she shares knowledge of documentary making and self-representation with young people, mainly from social projects and indigenous villages.
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Digital / 16:9 / Color http://www.amandapalma.com.br Art is union, bringing my body together with the projection, instead of just showing the documentary as usual, aims to unite creation and creator. Bringing the audience with me to BREATHE throughout these images and connect with the situations presented. The work itself is about being together, going out to dance together in these scenarios, without commitment to technique, just surrendering to breathing and presence. In #taitiria, I invite the audience to breathe with me through 4 documentary journeys: 1 - City of Rio de Janeiro, from the Botafogo neighborhood, to Morro do Alemão. 2 - Journey along the Amazon River arriving at an indigenous village. 3 - Aerial view of Brumadinho shortly after the dam burst. 4 - Myky indigenous village, in Mato Grosso. 5 - The present moment, my isolated existence in quarantine and how my relationship with the external, internal and image worlds is. Breathing alleviates symptoms of pain and relieves anxiety. Breathing saves lives. For me, the documentary is the art of the PRESENT, and the present is happening all the time. Studies prove that MINDFULNESS meditation (being focused on the present) helps and enhances treatments for anxiety and depression. Therefore, #taitiria is an audiovisual mindfulness experience through images, sounds and body practices that can be followed by the public, bringing these benefits to themselves. Art brings us together. Being together is medicine. #taitiria is a journey through an individual healing process that flows into the collective. The target audience is people interested in going out dancing with a focus on healing through movement, images, music and breathing.