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(drifting inside) TARRAFE

Based on the first journey to my grandparents land, this short film is a visual and sonic tale exploring the symbol of the mangrove forest as place-making, as ‘a desire for something else’, inspired by the Caribbean perspectives on it. By choosing in its haunting poetics and melodies to go for the literal meaning of a ‘threat’ like the Portuguese colonisers saw it (fear for diseases, unreachable to walk in, unpredictable structures...), tension arises slowly, as the (tangible/psychological/metaphysical) forest grows closer to family members differently affected by it.

  • Luz E.L. Bran
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Student, Other
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 16 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    Guinea-Bissau, Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Guinea-Bissau
  • Language:
    English, Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Sandberg Instituut
  • Sandberg Graduation Show 2024 - Door Open Space
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    June 8, 2024
Director Biography - Luz E.L. Bran

Luz (Brussels, 2000) is a belgian transdisciplinary artist with cape-verdean descent, mostly working with film, sound and performance to translate the research of their own heritage into diasporic tales. They recently graduated with a MFA from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam with a movie '(drifting inside) TARRAFE', a two-channel video installation

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