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VERTIGO
(in development)
Production: Lamaland, O Som e a Furia
Development support: FLAD – Luso-American Development Foundation, Futurama – Boca Associação Cultural, Câmara Municipal de Mértola, Sirius Arts Centre, Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (ICA)
A multidisciplinary project that attempts to comment on the paradigm-shifting moment that humanity faces today.
The planetary condition refers to the shift of the horizon from earth to air conveying a progressive dissolution of the entire system of individualisation, measurement, and localisation that makes the earth an inhabitable, political space.
We are, deprived of any support, we can finally overcome the orbital movement of a thought that for centuries has gravitated around the same founding nucleus.
The hypothesis of the end of the man as its own horizon impels the proliferation of histories without horizon and without ends.
Our present implies recognizing that our disorientation makes the uninhabitable our common place.
Atopia is what constitutes the eccentric existence of every being, but it refers also to a society which does not have territorial borders.
Vertigo uses train routes (allegory) around the world to open through ordinary people and contemporary thinkers’ new ways to consider human, technological, and animal subjectivity, language, politics, and metaphysics.