How does one rupture history? This question takes a specific turn in the Brazilian context, where an ineffective relation to logic; the impossible definition of an identity (creating the modern figure of the Anti-Hero Anonymous since the beginning of the 20th century) and the persistence of the myth (history perceived as a version of the myth) are particularly strong.

A story told through the eyes of a parrot. He alone remembers the metamorphosis of the modern figure of the Anti-Hero Anonymous. The narrative is deconstructed into areas of color, from which emerge “flashbacks” of fictional and documentary fragments filmed in Rio de Janeiro: scenes reenacting the Brazilian “cinema novo”, traces of Amerindian sacrifices and recordings of urban occupation evoking the spirit of the “Theater of the Oppressed”. The color—all at once skin, gesture, word, voice—structures as much as it breaks, creating a sort of vanishing punctuation, a punctuation of the memory operating on itself.

About Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky

“Investigating the multiplicity of the self through a spiral of metamorphoses that interrogate our power relation—always shifting—to the Other (the enemy, the animal, the plant, the spirit, the dead).”
EF & MT

Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky are a Franco-German artist and filmmaker duo working together since 2009, whose films, exhibitions, writing and interventions speculate upon the relationships between history and audio-visual representation through re-enacting protagonists, cosmology of signs, text and perspective exchanges.

Their films have been shown at a number of international film festivals including MFID Marseille, Ann Arbor, Doclisboa, TIFF Torino, Berwick and EMAF, as well as solo and group shows at Le Plateau Paris, MAMCO Geneve, Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo Paris, CAPC Bordeaux, CCCB Barcelona, Matadero Madrid, VDROME and Int. Japan Media Arts Festival.