Mar concreto
(Creatures of the Lines)

Abissal
(Abyssal)

Mar concreto

(Concrete Sea)

I started developing the idea of this film from an artistic and political research in a territory that lives in an environmental and human crisis, situated in a quite small delta plain in the Northern part of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Atafona Beach is located in a municipality that has suffered an intense process of erosion for over 50 years. The narrative emerged from my encounter with the archival material of a lady who inhabits this beach and who builds a relationship with the drama of erosion that is both personal and global. A relationship with ruins that she follows as if caring, creating a subversion of reality and registering a permanence in the face of imminent destruction, on one edge of the world. "Concrete Sea" was developed in partnership with the artistic residence CasaDuna - Centre of Art, Research and Memory of Atafona, shedding light on this desert place, its dusty images, blessed natures and silenced memories, in an emblematic stage of the tragic conflict between human culture and the nature in which it infiltrates.

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