Bologna in Lettere 2021
Il Festival online
ARTE-FATTI CONTEMPORANEI
a cura di Maria Korporal
Muriel Paraboni
Passage
SINOPSYS
A fisherman throws himself into unknown waters, where fish have long gone, wrapped in silent mystery. In this journey without return the landscape sometimes assumes the role of the other and the other soon reveals the reverse or a mirror of him self in the ineluctable solitude of the horizon.
Passage is a result of the partnership between artists Muriel Paraboni and Lilian Maus. It is based on Lilian´s research around the lagoons of Osorio, Southern Brazil, involving myths, reports, fictional and real characters that helped to structure and shape the script. The film was created from shooting a year of sucessive performances by Lilian Maus herself and the fisherman José Ricardo de Queiróz in the lagoons region.
The processes of writing, editing and post-production took place in parallel to the filmmaking, in an open movement that was fed by the performance actions and successive encounters with the landscape, but also returning to it with references that came from both the Eastern cinema and landscape painting, through phenomenology and poetry, until a cohesive poetic and conceptual set was obtained.
Directed by Muriel Paraboni
Performed by Lilian Maus and José Ricardo de Queiróz
Photography: Marcus Jung
Music: Edu Bocchese
Screenplay and Edition: Muriel Paraboni
Sound Design: Muriel Paraboni
Post-Production: Muriel Paraboni
Type: Short | Lengh: 8 min
Genres: Experimental | Arthouse | Poetry | Videoart
Release date: Jun-2019
Film´s website: www.vesperavisualmedia.com/passage.html
SCREENINGS
Invited Screening | Casa Eva – Campinas, Brazil – JAN/2020
Commented Screening | Sala Redenção – UFRGS – Porto Alegre, Brazil – NOV/2019
Commented Screening | Pinacoteca Aldo Locatelli – Porto Alegre, Brazil – OUT/2019
Finalist | Lisbon Film Redezvous – Lisbon, Portugal – OUT/2019
Semi-finalist | New Harvest Film Festival – Moscow, Russia – SEP/19
Official Selection | Bogotá Experimental Film Festival – Bogotá, Colombia – AUG/19
Semi-finalist | The Alternative Film Festival – Toronto, Canada – JUN/19
Pré-release l Aura Contempory Art Gallery – São Paulo, Brazil – OCT/18
Passage is freely inspired by the legend of the bride of Lagoa dos Barros, dating back to countless popular stories observed since the colonial period and arriving in the 20th century with the death of young Maria Luiza Häussler by her fiance, Heinz Werner João Schmeling, who hid the body in Lagoa dos Barros, in Osorio, Southern Brazil, in August 1940.
Other local myths were added to the omnipresence of the missing bride. The dangerous currents of the lagoons, the supposed disappearance of the fish and the persistent wind are some of the elements that shaped the script, whose structure remained open to the creative force of performances, these in turn stoned by the poetic references of the project.
The conceptual and formal design of the film occurred with the visual integration of the myths and reports of the region with philosophical and poetic excerpts, among which was definitely the poem “In the forest of alienation”, by Fernando Pessoa, that gave voice to the encounter of the characters through the mysterious landscape of Lagoa dos Barros.
Directors Bio
Muriel Paraboni is a multimedia artist. Trained in visual arts and cinema, with a master’s degree in the field of Art and Technology, his production involves supports such as film and video, installation, photography, painting and objects, which often appear combined in environmental and sensory proposals. Has been exhibiting regularly, in solo and group shows, in various parts of the world since 2010. His films and videos have been screened in festivals, museums and galleries in more than 20 countries, such as the United States, England, Italy, France, Germany, Portugal, Mexico and Argentina, receiving several awards.