Experiencing Interruptions?

Obsessive Repetition of Patterns

This is an immersive audiovisual performance with Istefânia Rubino and Fabio Bola that brings to the audience the fragile boundaries afflicted by reason in the face of loss of control within the scope of socio-labor confrontations, between verbal violence and urban pulse.
Concept:
The performance unites two apparently opposing forces that reveal themselves to be profoundly connected: on one side, the video art presents the raw and visceral monologue of a woman in a state of acute psychotic crisis, whose words explode in fragments of rage, resentment, and pain. On the other, a DJ set of instrumental grime, a genre born in the peripheries of London, marked by aggressive beats, distorted synthesizers, and an urgent energy of urban survival.
Structure:
The video is projected on a large scale, capturing the emotional intensity of the fragmented discourse. The camera brings a close-up on the woman's face which is modified as the video progresses, maintaining the claustrophobia and visual distortion that mirror the character's altered mental state. The text, loaded with profanities and accusations, functions as sonic and conceptual raw material.
The DJ responds to and dialogues with this verbal violence through the low frequencies of grime: sub-bass that vibrates in the audience's bodies, frenetic hi-hats that echo anxiety, strident synthesizers that materialize paranoia. The set does not illustrate the video, it inhabits it, creating layers of tension and, occasionally, moments of almost contemplative suspension.
Experience:
The audience is immersed in an environment where discomfort is intentional. The performance questions: where does the illness end and the society that produces it begin? What happens when we turn the volume to maximum on voices we normally silence? How does contemporary urban music carry, in its form, the same traumas and fissures of psychotic discourse?
This is a work about rupture, about the social and individual body in collapse, but also about the strange vitality that pulses even, or especially, in chaos.

  • Fabio Bola
    Director
  • Istefânia Rubino
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 19, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Fabio Bola, Istefânia Rubino

Fabio Bola’s ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: He holds a doctorate (PPGARTES-UERJ) (with a grade 10 scholarship from FAPERJ) and a postdoctorate in arts (PPGAV-UFRJ). He holds a docto-rate in philosophy from IFCS/UFRJ, and his thesis in the area of philosophy of art, "The Aesthetics of the Grotesque in Comics," defended in 2014, expands on his study on the subject conducted in 2011. He completed a sandwich doctorate with Richard Shusterman in 2013 at Florida Atlantic Uni-versity (USA). He taught Visual Communication at BA/UFRJ in 2016 and 2017.
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9071731543124915 See all diplomas at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/h6j5BkK4KH1KGBwcA
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Fabio Bola is a musician, composer, artist, videomaker, designer, producer, researcher, collaborating professor at UFRJ and co-coordinator of extension activities at UFRJ. In 2025, the Neuro Masters festival (Moscow, Russia) selected the following video art pieces for exhibition: Burn, Nature, Aion, Nanovideo Anthropozoid, and Robot Crab. At Music Imbizo 2025 in Durban, South Africa, he was invited and presented the video art piece “Burn.” With the same work, he won a special jury prize at the 2nd Yeosu International Web Drama Film Festival. Also in 2025, he participated with several films (“Now is Now,” “Nanovideo Anthropozoid v4,” “One Minute on the Processed Street,” and “Robot Crab”) in the Croatian OneMinute Film Festival, Pozega, Croatia. Latest updates can be found at https://www.instagram.com/fabiobolax/ and https://www.behance.net/magneticstudiobr.
Istefania Rubino is PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Performing Arts, School of Commu-nication, UFRJ (PPGAC/ECO/UFRJ). Master's degree in Contemporary Art and Culture, specializ-ing in Art History and Criticism, from the Graduate Program in Arts (PPGARTES) at the State Uni-versity of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), where she defended her dissertation entitled: "Viscerality in the Work of Anna Bella Geiger (1965-1969)”. She also has Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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