2022-2025

2 films super-8, scan digital 4K, transfert HD

5’4”

This installation is a diptych of films of frigate-birds (fragatas) flying over the skies of Rio de Janeiro. The same sequence of images is transferred to black and white, in negative, and played in reverse to produce the second film. This simple shift produces a type of abstraction of the image, produced with the technical means of its recording and broadcast. The singular silhouettes of the birds move in opposite directions on two pedestal-mounted screens, and appear to resonate with the molecular agitation of the film grain.