Thursday 18 July
9.30 p.m.
DEV Garden – Giardino Cavaticcio
Passaggio Alinovi – Entrance on Via del Porto side
With 2018’s OLHE BEM AS MONTANHAS / LOOK CLOSELY AT THE MOUNTAINS, Ana Vaz creates a parallelism between the Minas Gerais region in south-west Brazil, where mining activities have heavily impacted on the natural environment, and Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern France, also marked by more than three centuries of mining activity.
A poetic gaze takes precedence in the narrative and, ‘looking closely’, directs the film towards details, visual and sound elements. However, these are never disconnected from politics: a shot of the sky from the bottom of a ravine is enough to evoke the ghosts of uprooted indigenous peoples, whose cave paintings remain.
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Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker. She graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Le Fresnoy-Studio National (France). She was a member of SPEAP (Experimental Program in Political Arts), a project conceived and directed by Bruno Latour at Science Po in Paris.
With the support of ππͺππ§π©πππ§π ππ€π§π©π€-πππ§πππ€π―π―π πππ‘ πΎπ€π’πͺπ£π ππ π½π€π‘π€ππ£π. The activities are carried out within the π½ππ‘ππ£πππ€ π₯ππ§π©ππππ₯ππ©ππ«π€ 2023 project promoted by the Municipality of Bologna and the Urban Innovation Foundation.