| "before I left brazil, i found a box full of super-8 movies made during the 70:s in my mother´s house. the films were made by and belonged to my sister who died 20 years ago. after her death, all the super-8 equipment disappeared and the films were silenced." (l.r.) during the process of this project, a new one-hour film was created from reorganizing and editing selected fragments from 40 hours of the original super-8 material. later, this new film is screened for the family in brazil and a hidden camera captures the event. the resultant video installation consists of two silent projections placed facing each other. one projection shows the family watching the film. the other shows a short loop of the sister dancing with her father at a debutant ball in the 70:s. the work speaks of the relationship between public and private space, the family as an institution and the way it wishes to be seen by - and how it relates to - society. |
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