EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA, PROJECT
Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa is a multidisciplinary project realised between 2019 and 2020. It comprises four homonymous works, two films, an installation, and a publication.
Production: ART for The World, Lamaland, Primeira Idade
Produced with materials collected during the production of Interdependence (2019) an omnibus composed by eleven short films to raise awareness on Environment and Climate Change, conceived, developed, and produced by Adelina von Fürstenberg with ART for The World.
ART for The World
Auspice: United Nations, World Meteorological Organisation, and the City of Milan
Partnership: Gail (India) Limited, ITC – Ethical Fashion Initiative
Support: SDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Lamaland
Support: Fundacíon Botín, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Development support: Yaddo, Atelier – Museu Júlio Pomar, Fundação Oriente, Brown
Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House
Additional support: Grupo Nova Imagem, Bikini, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Lisbon Film Commission,Screen, Forum Dança, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, cE3c – Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Alexandra Moura, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Silva Dias – Sociedade de Comércio de Lenhas e Carvão, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, RNTRANS – Grupo Urbanos, António e Luciano Neto Décor – Artes Décor e Cenografia, INTERSECCIÓN – Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival, Estraperlo Editora, Fundación Luís Seoane and Deputación da Coruña
Primeira idade
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa is a meditation on humanity’s massive redesign of the planet and a dystopian pamphlet on the Anthropocene.
It portrays a moment of euphoria as the drifting occupants on the raft, hoping and praying to be rescued, appear to glimpse a possibility of salvation. We can almost hear the hoarse cries through which they attempt to draw attention to their desperate plight, mustering a final ounce of strength before the void. This is their last chance of survival.
Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa refers to the colonial paradigm, worldview, and technologies that mark out regions of high biodiversity to reduce life to its conversion into a resource through capitalism, with an enormous environmental and social impact.
It is an allegory for states of emergency in environmental policy, climate, and migration, with an ethical-political purpose
Interdependence
Art for the World
Primeira Idade
Lamaland
Agencia Portuguesa da Curta Metragem
2019 – EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (FOR INTERDEPENDENCE – CINEMA AND ART JOINING FORCES TO RAISE AWARENESS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE)
4KHD vídeo, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 6 min, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy
Production: ART for The World, ONG associated with the UNDPI
Patronage: United Nations, World Meteorological Organization
Partnership: Gail (India) Limited, ITIC – Ethical Fashion Initiative
Contribution: République et canton de Genève, Fondazione CARIPLO, Sesc, EBU – Operating Eurovision and Euroradio.
Media parter / distribution: Eurovision/EBU (European Broadcasting Union), TAL (Televisión América Latina), SESC TV – BRAZIL, TAL (Televisión América Latina), VOXAFRICA , ABU (Asian Broadcasting Union), Rede GLOBO (Canal Futura)
Support: SDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Distribution: Art for The World
Lamaland additional credits to the commission:
Development support: Yaddo, Atelier – Museu Julio Pomar, Fundação Oriente
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Grupo Nova Imagem, Bikini
Additional support: Fundacíon Botín, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Lisbon Film Commission,Screen, Forum Dança, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, cE3c – Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Alexandra Moura, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Silva Dias – Socieda de de Comércio de Lenhas e Carvão, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, RNTRANS – Grupo Urbanos, António e Luciano Neto Décor – Artes cor e Cenografia.
2019 – EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (FOR INTERDEPENDENCE – CINEMA AND ART JOINING FORCES TO RAISE AWARENESS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE)
4KHD vídeo, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 6 min, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy
Production: ART for The World, ONG associated with the UNDPI
Patronage: United Nations, World Meteorological Organization
Partnership: Gail (India) Limited, ITIC – Ethical Fashion Initiative
Contribution: République et canton de Genève, Fondazione CARIPLO, Sesc, EBU – Operating Eurovision and Euroradio.
Media parter / distribution: Eurovision/EBU (European Broadcasting Union), TAL (Televisión América Latina), SESC TV – BRAZIL, TAL (Televisión América Latina), VOXAFRICA , ABU (Asian Broadcasting Union), Rede GLOBO (Canal Futura)
Support: SDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Distribution: Art for The World
Lamaland additional credits to the commission:
Development support: Yaddo, Atelier – Museu Julio Pomar, Fundação Oriente
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Grupo Nova Imagem, Bikini
Additional support: Fundacíon Botín, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Lisbon Film Commission,Screen, Forum Dança, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, cE3c – Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Alexandra Moura, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Silva Dias – Socieda de de Comércio de Lenhas e Carvão, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, RNTRANS – Grupo Urbanos, António e Luciano Neto Décor – Artes cor e Cenografia.
2019 – EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (FOR INTERDEPENDENCE – CINEMA AND ART JOINING FORCES TO RAISE AWARENESS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE)
4KHD vídeo, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 6 min, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy
Production: ART for The World, ONG associated with the UNDPI
Patronage: United Nations, World Meteorological Organization
Partnership: Gail (India) Limited, ITIC – Ethical Fashion Initiative
Contribution: République et canton de Genève, Fondazione CARIPLO, Sesc, EBU – Operating Eurovision and Euroradio.
Media parter / distribution: Eurovision/EBU (European Broadcasting Union), TAL (Televisión América Latina), SESC TV – BRAZIL, TAL (Televisión América Latina), VOXAFRICA , ABU (Asian Broadcasting Union), Rede GLOBO (Canal Futura)
Support: SDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Distribution: Art for The World
Lamaland additional credits to the commission:
Development support: Yaddo, Atelier – Museu Julio Pomar, Fundação Oriente
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Grupo Nova Imagem, Bikini
Additional support: Fundacíon Botín, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Lisbon Film Commission,Screen, Forum Dança, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, cE3c – Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Alexandra Moura, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Silva Dias – Socieda de de Comércio de Lenhas e Carvão, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, RNTRANS – Grupo Urbanos, António e Luciano Neto Décor – Artes cor e Cenografia.
4KHD vídeo, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 6 min, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy
Production: ART for The World, ONG associated with the UNDPI
Patronage: United Nations, World Meteorological Organization
Partnership: Gail (India) Limited, ITIC – Ethical Fashion Initiative
Contribution: République et canton de Genève, Fondazione CARIPLO, Sesc, EBU – Operating Eurovision and Euroradio.
Media parter / distribution: Eurovision/EBU (European Broadcasting Union), TAL (Televisión América Latina), SESC TV – BRAZIL, TAL (Televisión América Latina), VOXAFRICA , ABU (Asian Broadcasting Union), Rede GLOBO (Canal Futura)
Support: SDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Distribution: Art for The World
Lamaland additional credits to the commission:
Development support: Yaddo, Atelier – Museu Julio Pomar, Fundação Oriente
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Grupo Nova Imagem, Bikini
Additional support: Fundacíon Botín, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Lisbon Film Commission,Screen, Forum Dança, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, cE3c – Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Alexandra Moura, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Silva Dias – Socieda de de Comércio de Lenhas e Carvão, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, RNTRANS – Grupo Urbanos, António e Luciano Neto Décor – Artes cor e Cenografia.
2020 – EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
4KHD video, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 10 min, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy
Distribution: Portuguese Short Film Agency
2020 – EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
Installation, Four-channels 4KHD video, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 15 min in a loop, Scenographic sculpture 400 X 238 cm, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy.
2020 – EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
4KHD video, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 10 min, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy
Distribution: Portuguese Short Film Agency
2020 – EXTRACTION: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
Installation, Four-channels 4KHD video, 2:39, color, dolby 5.1 sound, 15 min in a loop, Scenographic sculpture 400 X 238 cm, Portugal – Switzerland –Italy.
