✸ Skin, Inscribed ✸ 
Contemporary Brazilian hand-processed films

► Just as a painter applies raw paint on a canvas, a filmmaker applies light(and other matters) on film strip. This hand-picked program features works produced at artist-run film labs (film laboratories by artists, for artists) scattered throughout the country, born from the vast and diverse geopolitical territories of Brazil. The relationship of physical sensations with plants and nature/ culture (humans), film-skin profaned as a tangible material, event that comes into being as ephemeral situation when it passes through a projector. This group of works, far from commercial “movies", emerge from the personal interests of each artist without expecting anything in return. Should they be called more appropriately as “photographs in action”?

Curated and introduced by Tetsuya Maruyama, in collaboration with Cinédoc and the association Mani, followed by a discussion.

► Screening :  

Wild Flower
Moira Lacowicz
2025, 16mm double-projection, color, digital sound, 3’

Wild Flower is an expanded piece still in progress, originally projected in a double-channel format, where the process and the connection between images drive the film. Starting from delicate phytograms, it moves through negatives of flowers, subjective beach landscapes, fishermen in their daily lives, culminating in the visceral beating of a heart.

Corpse of Water/Confined Flux 
Helder Martinovsky 
2020, 16mm, b&w, digital sound, 14’ 

A mass of water appears as heavy clouds, which fall over the mountains and gush out of the earth in the form of springs, which become rivers. That follow their course as a flow of energy organized in the harmony of their own chaos, until they encounter morbid obstacles.

Consider 
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2024, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3’

bombs like fireworks,
the artifice of televised war in a soft, black sky,
perforations of light in the film’s velvet
for any serious reflection,
the sidereal
CONSIDER
in memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars.

I Will Remember Lucy 
Maria Mion
2022, 16mm, b&w, digital sound, 3’ 

How many times does it take to access memory to remember someone's image before it changes or disappears? This film addresses the fragmentation of memory through a sequence of reproductions of a photograph using various analog techniques.

Traços sobre a noite
Cristiana Miranda
2025, 16mm, 8’

A direct animation film on 16mm inspired by Tupinambá geometry and the forms of the forest. The film offers a playful experience that celebrates the primordial enchantment of images and the vertigo of existence.

Bleach Farm
Lígia M. Teixeira & Francisco B. Gusso
2024, 16mm, b&w, digital sound, 3’

A photochemical experiment in 16mm. Film processed with eco-developer made from field sunflowers, tinted and toned manually, with the intervention of sodium hypochlorite on the film.

Typefilm an Armory Show
João Reynaldo
2025, 16mm double-projection, color, silent, 4’

Typefilm an armory show is a cameraless animation work, entirely typed on film.

Walden Street
Duo Strangloscope
2025, 16mm double-projection, b&w, silent, 3’

Nature produces vision. The gaze, like a boat, wanders, guided by the leaves of the trees against the sky. The images of an easily observable commonality, which was once commonplace at first glance, make the journey an encounter with a nature that is both close and distant. A landscape in extinction, a wandering gaze in an increasingly unlikely act: seeing what moves around. Walden Street is a road movie suspended in time by how we look at screens. In this 16mm version, it returns, another, to bring in the inscription of the film's skin the fragments of the plants that produced the chemical metamorphosis of the development of the images. We resume the path of looking at what is between us and the sky, a deviation from the blindness of Instagram = grammar of the instantaneous.

Untitled (Three Moons) 
Tetsuya Maruyama 
2024, 16mm double-projection, b&w, optical sound, 10’ 

a moon, two moons, three moons
Though unified by the 24-frames-per-second standard, each projector moves at its own subtly distinct rhythm. There is a (d)effect beyond measure—an ‘imperfection’ that lingers in our retinal perception over time, unfolding like a lunar orbit.

Approx TRT: 53 mins

Thanks to: Tetsuya Maruyama and all the filmmakers, Naara Fontineli, Monise Nicodemos, Benoît Carpentier, Mariya Nikiforova.