Film "Habitat Museum"

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Habitat Museum

Habitat Museum that questions the categories and stories of the encyclopedic museum. Aline Motta (Niterói, 1974) and Philip Rizk (Xipre, 1982), from very different contexts, explore the archive, one of the central elements of this museum, to reconstruct silenced histories.

Session program:

Mapping Lessons
PHILIP RIZK, 2020. Egypt. VOSC. 61'
Philip Rizk ens embarks on a journey with K to an Orient Mitjà colonitzat, establishing connections between the years of the Russian Revolution, the Spain of the Second Republic, the Paris Commune of 1871 and the Syrian Revolution of 2011.

Horror Tales
PHILIP RIZK, 2024. Egypt. VOSC. 7'
Terror Tales reflects on the role of the image in the creation of horror stories that legitimize systematic regimes of racism, following the American somni or that of Zionism in Palestine.

Water is a time machine
ALINE MOTTA, 2023. Brazil. VOSC. 31'
Aline Motta has meticulously gone through the details of her own family genealogy, while exploring the matriarchal forces that make up her entire existence.

Natural Filha
ALINE MOTTA, 2018. Brazil. VOSC. 15'
Based on an unprecedented analysis of the historical iconography and oral accounts of the family's own seva, visual artist Aline Motta creates a light hypothesis about the origin of the besàvia seva, which most likely goes back to Vassouras, the epicenter of Brazilian slavery.

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