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A TORRE / THE TOWER (2015)
HD video, 16:9, black and white, Dolby 5.1 sound, 8 min., Portugal / Germany / Moldova
In collaboration with Christoph Both-Asmus
Production: Mengamuk, O Som e a Fúria, Lamaland
Support: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Yaddo, Bogliasco Foundation, Bikini, Universidade Católica do Porto
Distribution: Agência da Curta Metragem, Kinoscope
Video Installation Edition: Fundação EDP/MAAT Museu de Arte Arquitectura e Tecnologia – collection, Portugal
Harvard Film Archive – HFA / Harvard University – collection, USA
Video Installation Edition: CNAP – Centre National de Arts Plastiques – collection, France

Produced with materials collected during the development of feature the film Extinction (2018), directed by Salomé Lamas and produced by O Som e a Fúria, Lamaland in coproduction with Mengamuk Films, and in association production with Walla Collective, Screen Miguel Nabinho, Bikini.

    Maybe Kolja’s experiment of merging his body – human with the tree – nature, venturing into a border zone between the earth and the sky, is due to his purity of spirit, to the grandeur of the idiots, or the foolishness of the mystics. Or is it all of these together?

    Maybe it is a symptom of the enlightened—or simply an elaborated suicide.