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Singing of the waters

A visual piece, a short film: 00:02:58, that brings the image of a waterfall.
With this piece, I want to activate the sense that nature and its waters are channels of connections with the creative force, and that the waters can tell their own story, beyond an antropocenic relation with the wild nature. As an indigenous person myself, I do with this piece, an ode to the feminine spirit of the waters, which give us life, and the life of indigenous peoples is intimately connected to the life of wild nature.

This piece is part of a concept I called:

Overflowing lines

1. The concept of Overflowing lines emerged in 2010, during a storm that caused several people to camp together under a large blue canvas tent.
2. Because the ground of the blue tent, which sheltered everyone, was quite steep, some people who took care of the tent began to dig cracks in the ground, creating channels through which rainwater could flow, and by doing that, it wouldn't overflow into the big tent.
3. That's when occurred to me to think of overflowing lines.
4. I thought that an overflowing needs lines that give it a passage through.
5. I thought about nature.
6. In nature, overflowing lines can be thought as the happening of a river.
7. Rivers flow into seas and oceans.
8. The waterfalls.
9. Waterfalls are like the intimate meeting point of a river with rocks, caves and mysteries. The depths.
10. In a waterfall, there is an energy peak, generated by the movement of the water, capable of activating creative senses.
11. Art.
12. Art is a way to create giving a passage trough a form of overflowing line.

  • Tassia Mila
    Director
  • Tassia Mila
    Writer
  • Tassia Mila
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Cântico das águas
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University of São Paulo (USP)
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Video Sound Archive
    Los Angeles
    United States
    October 2, 2021
    Video Sound Archive Season 2
    https://www.videosoundarchive.com/archive-s2
  • Distrito1 Gallery
    Patagonia
    Argentina
    April 30, 2021
    Tropical Melancolia Collective Exhibition
    https://www.instagram.com/distrito1arte/
  • The Wrong Biennale Nº 5, Metatopia Pavilion
  • Wide Open Experimental Film Festival
    Oklahoma City by Oklahoma University
    United States
    June 9, 2022
  • Feminist Border Arts Film Festival
    New Mexico State University
    United States
    June 28, 2022
    Online on youtube
  • Fixe Festival. Cinema Petra Belas Artes.
    São Paulo
    Brazil
    July 26, 2026
Director Biography - Tassia Mila

I am sonic and visual artist, weaver and curator.

I compose sonic and visual pieces, sonic films, tales, stories and imaginations; I research the practice of experimental cinema and the survival of images, their presence, appearances, persistence, their generational transmissions and their movement in the fabric of space-time and beyond.

I was born and raised in Jequié-Maracás, in Bahia. I have Kiriri-Tupinambá indigenous peoples origin.

I currently live and work in São Paulo Capital City and I'm studying Fine Arts at USP-University of São Paulo.

Creator of the online platform kamîm tuhut: https://www.kamimtuhut.com/

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Director Statement

Transmission and lines to the transit of sounds, images, voices, music and atmospheres .