FRACTAIS TROPICAIS

My filmmaking arises from the desire to develop a unique voice and cinematic language that challenges the established norms of my time. Therefore, Tropical Fractals follows a literary fable structure. The characters in the narrative represent ideas and positions regarding facts of immense importance to contemporary society. Using the artifice of cinema, fictional characters take a greater part in discussing urgent environmental and technological issues. From five years of research into the current state of Western knowledge production in the field of environmental preservation technology, I also observed contemporary collective anxieties regarding an imminent climate dystopia and, with it, an increase in the development of digital documentation and image reproduction technology, which has created a new capitalist techno-colonial vision of Earth domination. Addressing these questions requires a constant search for a language that avoids reductions of cinematic genres, cultural baggage, and conceptual repetitions of previous films. Here, a new perspective is taken on these issues in a way that reverses the logic of our world, of which countries in the Global South are destined to become an archive in a data center in the California desert. Here, they become the owners of humanity’s archive, the space mission, and the cinematic tools—the image, the movement, the sound, the imagination—the poetics of the world.