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Mirante do Morro da Cruz

"Mirante do Morro da Cruz" is an audiovisual work of an atmospheric and observational nature. The film focuses on an imposing and solitary architectural structure: a stone lookout point with colonial roots, topped by a terracotta roof and accessible by winding staircases carved into the rock itself. Surrounded by the waters of a tranquil bay, the construction functions as a silent witness to the passage of time, evoking the power of memories embedded in spaces once inhabited and now surrendered to nature.

The narrative dispenses with words to rely on a dense and vibrant soundscape. The stillness of the stone structure and the continuous movement of the water are underscored by the raw sound of the local fauna. The space is initially punctuated by the rhythmic and strident call of the Curicaca (Theristicus caudatus), with phonemes such as "/kɾa/ /kɾa/ /kɾa/". This imposing vocalization is joined by the chaotic energy of a flock of parakeets in flight. Their presence fills the environment with a vibrant clamor, translated into a rapid and continuous repetition of high-pitched phonemes such as "/kɾit/ /kɾit/ /kɾit/" and "/tʃak/ /tʃak/ /tʃak/". All this sonic movement contrasts with the furtive presence of small birds hidden in the foliage, which punctuate the background with shorter sounds, such as "/tʃi/ /tʃi/" and "/pjw/ /pjw/". This refers to the presence of smaller birds (common passerines, such as great kiskadees, thrushes, or parakeets), typical of areas with abundant vegetation, as is the case on Paquetá Island.
Through the overlap between the perennial rigidity of the stone and the organic liveliness of this multifaceted sound ecosystem, the work proposes an immersive experience about contemplation and the inevitable way in which nature reclaims, with all its vigor and noise, the ancient spaces of observation.

  • Fabio Bola
    Director
  • Fabio Bola
    Writer
  • Fabio Bola
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Mirante do Morro da Cruz
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 4, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    300 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Fabio Bola

Fabio Mourilhe (Fabio Bola) has a PhD in art from UERJ, a post-doctorate in art from UFRJ, a master's degree in design from PUC-Rio and a degree in web design. He also has a PhD and a degree in philosophy (UFRJ and UERJ).

In 2025, his movie “Burn” received a prize at Yeosu International Web Drama Film Festival, KOREA, it was selected and presented at Imbizo Music Film Fest, and was selected to the Egyptian American Film Fest in New York. Since 2024, he has been producing new productions and curating diverse works in art, video art, and integrated arts, including exhibitions such as "Aion," "Artificial Landscapes," "Anthropozoic Nanovideo," "What I Do Is Music," "Transbólide," "Artificial Nature," "Blind Drawing," "Nature," and others, with Fernando Gerheim, Alex Hamburger, and Franklin Cassaro. He won the audience award for best video art for "Aion" at the MFL 2024, with screenings at CCBB RJ, SP, and Brasília, and Estação Net Botafogo RJ. He was selected for the "Aion" exhibition at the Piccola Arena in Petrópolis in 2025, with Alex Hamburger and Tchello d'Barros. Two video works, "Burn" and "Robot Crab" (with Franklin Cassaro), were selected for the 24th Frame Future Film Fest (2025) in Modena, Italy. Two works were selected for the Hélio Oiticica Municipal Art Center in 2024: "Transbólide" and "O que faço é música" (What I Do Is Music). His video art work "Natureza" (Nature) was selected for the Lift-Off Global Network festival in England and the Morphos exhibition in Venice in 2025. In addition to "Aion," he curated the exhibitions and projects with Franklin Cassaro, "Paisagens Artificiales," "Natureza Artificial," "Desenho Blind," and "Maracatu Intergalactico" (also with Suely Farhi); a group show with several artists based on the work Neuromancer; and a collage exhibition with Regina Pouchan. One work, "Máscara Futurista" (Futuristic Mask), was selected for the cover of the CCBB Brasília website, and his model "Pencil Morph" was promoted on the Civitai website. Some of his works have been featured in group shows, such as "Caranguejo Robô" (Robot Crab) at Galeria Poste in Niterói and "Bird in the Head" (Little Bird in the Head) in the exhibition "Longevidade." In 2025, the Neuro Masters festival (Moscow, Russia) selected the following video art works for screening: Burn, Natureza, Aion, Nanovideo Antropozoide, and Caranguejo Robô.
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- In the late 1990s, he began developing work with flash animations and their expansions through javascript. The technological resources available with these tools allowed him to create works that are close to both design and art. In this context, we have Cinepoemas (2006 and 2023) with the writer Fernando Gerheim, animations on typography for Magnetic Records, animated websites based on artistic works (on a painting by Malevich, for example), websites with animations for Ziraldo (Eternet website), various animations for Alexandre Perlingeiro (Dakshina Tantra Yoga), animations for the text of designer Luli Radfahrer (Cyberparnasianismo) and animations on comic strips.

- Recently, at the end of the 2010s, he began developing educational videos for music lessons, with scores that move in parallel with the musical sequence and with the action of the hands playing the pieces on the piano. For music, he also began developing video clips mixing real images and animation for the Hipecirco and Fabio Bola X projects.
- In 2023, he began using image generation and image sequence resources to create videos through Stable Diffusion Deforum installed on the Google Colab notebook or simple SD on Automatic 1111, Runaway Gen 2.0, Leonardo AI, Seaart with ControlNet and Wombo Dream.

- He is co-author of the book Philosophy of art, which provides a specific space for audiovisual (cinema); and the chapter “Beyond formalism”, which discusses cinema, phenomenology and Jean Luc Godard.

- His doctoral thesis in art, “Expressibles, sensations and expressivities in comics at the end of the world”, uses some concepts that Gilles Deleuze used in Cinema 2: Time-image, such as crystal-image and pure optical image; and in Cinema 1: Movement-image, such as the northern line. He also works with other concepts specific to cinema, such as the sequence shot, and addresses the aesthetics of German expressionist cinema; relationships between comics, video games and cinema; relationships between cinema, futurism and surrealism in the dream-image; events between comics frames and Michelangelo Antonioni; and theoretical comparisons between the disnarrative in cinema and comics.

- In his article “Simulated make-believe games: reality and fiction in comics”, we use concepts from the cinema of Epstein, Pasolini and Jean Rouch to think about comics.

- In his article “Aesthetics of violence in comics”, we discuss silent film and adaptations of superheroes from comics to cinema. - In his article “Grotesque in Comics: Considerations on a Bakhtinian Bias”, we have an exposition of the parodies of cinema produced by Mad Magazine and the graphic experimentation of cinema foreseen in comics.

- In his book “The Frame in Comics”, we have comparisons between the framing of comics and cinematographic practice.- In his article “Milo Manara: An Adventure in the World of Eroticism”, we have analyses of the joint work between Frederico Fellini and Milo Manara.
- In his article “Ontology of (Mass) Art in Comics”, we have an analysis of certain aspects of the transposition of comics to cinema.

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