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YWY, the Android
Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal 2017 / 7'40" / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
YWY, an indigenous android, talks with a GMO corn crop in the agricultural interior of Brazil. In a moment of intimacy, the woman, who we come to understand is a field worker, and the plants talk about bodily rights, infertility, labour, and monocrops. As a human, the spectator is unable to hear the voice of the corn, perceiving the dialogue as a weird monologue. The film’s script is inspired by the writing of Brazilian author João Guimarães Rosa, in which dialogues are often expressed through the voice of a single person rather than two or more.
Learning to Live with the Enemy?
Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal 2017 / 9'30" / DCP / colour / English / Exp/Doc
Shot in inner Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in a landscape transformed by the monoculture of mostly transgenic soy, maize, and sugar cane, the film follows the process of transforming soy crops into biodiesel, from the moment of harvest to the workflow of one of the main biodiesel processing factories in the region. A series of notes and reflections taken by the author are overlaid on the moving images. They ask: What kind of life lies in transgenic seeds? And what does it mean to live with the enemy?
A Mordida
Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal/Brazil 2019 / 25'54" / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
Between a house in the Atlantic Forest and a genetically modified mosquito factory near São Paulo, a polyamorous, non-binary relationship struggles to survive an epidemic spreading across Brazil. «A Mordida» is a film somewhere between horror, science fiction, and queer drama.
The Ovary
Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal 2021 / 5'51" / DCP / colour / English / Fic
«The Ovary» is a short film narrating the attempts of a gay couple to reproduce biologically through an ovarian implant in a cis man. Imbued with an intimate and sensorial relation to images and accompanied by a cover of Lana Del Rey's pop song «Let Me Love You Like a Woman», the film is a raw and haunting approach to the online fan fiction genre Mpreg (a term for male pregnancy) and its tense, but also visionary, relation with surrogacy, privilege, and homonormativity.
Flores
Jorge Jácome / Portugal 2017 / 26'39" / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
In a natural disaster scenario, the entire population of the Azores is evacuated due to a plague of hydrangeas. Two young soldiers guide us to the sad stories of those forced to leave. The cinematic journey becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity.
