As Far As The World Reaches
Film, 2024
Scientific practices from past and present meet in the examination of the 17th-century colonial archives and visual documents of Brazilian natural history preserved in the Netherlands.
Black Sun
film, 2016
In 1919, British astronomers arrived in Sobral, a city in northeastern Brazil, to document a solar eclipse. The photographic experiment that ultimately confirmed Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is reimagined by Sobral's inhabitants today.
True False Truly False Falsely True
video-essay & performance, 2022
During the sixteenth century, artists and scientists aimed to capture nature faithfully through botanical drawings, landscapes, and still-life paintings. Meant to render reality as it was, these works often reveal a deeper tension between description and falsification, as artistic mimesis and scientific documentation began to take separate paths.
When Objectivity Backfires
video-essay, 2022
After finding himself at the center of a far-right campaign of misinformation against scientific data, a Brazilian physicist has no other option than leaving the lab to enter politics.
To Strangers
video INSTALLATION, 2024
In 1613, a Tupinambá indigenous chief delivered a speech inside the Louvre. Four hundred years later, a new translation of the old Tupi language uncovers overlooked nuances about indigenous diplomacy and European versions of history.
Sumidouro
ANIMATION, 2021
Nina, a Japanese macaque, finds a sensory deprivation tank and gets drowned in a meditation about longing and isolation while confined within a zoo enclosure.
Figures Don't Lie But Liars Can Figure
film, 2015
Hallucinations of a missing hand.
Braille Flute Piece
(Closed Captioned)
film, 2012
The words “spoken” by a wind instrument, with holes arranged in Braille, are uselessly translated in captions, drawing nonsense out of incompatible representations of sound.
