What is our oldest creation? Ghosts? Fear? Oppression? The world? Brazilian filmmaking duo Luciana Mazeto & Vinícius Lopes will be at Filmhuis Cavia presenting two of their recent short films, exploring myths and legends of the Southern-Brazilian forest and the legacies of colonization in the area. Making both experimental short films and feature-length works, the duo has crafted a hybrid language between fiction, documentary and the essay film, looking critically at the past through their unique form of storytelling. Afterwards there will be a Q&A with the filmmakers.

THE EYES IN THE WOODS AND THE TASTE IN THE WATER
Luciana Mazeto & Vinícius Lopes | 2020 | Brazil | 36’ | EN subs

The first film in this program departs from texts by the German-Turkish researcher Ilhami Peker, which analyse different migratory movements and processes of construction of national identity at the outset of German immigration in Brazil’s southernmost state.

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STONE ENGRAVINGS AND THE THREE-COLORED CHICKENPOX TALE
Luciana Mazeto & Vinícius Lopes | 2018 | Brazil | 21’ | EN subs

Stone engravings and the three-colored chickenpox tale looks cautiously at the first evidences of humanity in the region, exposing side by side, the visible and invisible parts of a story.