Navios de Terra
Simone Cortezão
Brazil, Taiwan | 2017 | 73 min
World premiere
Languages : Mandarin, Portuguese
Subtitles : English, French
A man leaves Brazil and a red clay quarry that saturates all the surrounding nature to board a cargo ship. He is accompanying the “mountain” that has been extracted from the Brazilian forest and will travel in the ship’s hold to Taiwan.
The opening, the account of a man’s dream, is like a warning: “he knew that his dream would become the nightmare of those who would follow…” and sets the tone of this fable of reality. Is this global world of which the modern man dreams, which pushes back boundaries, already a nightmare of wandering blindly for others? Like the mudslides that invade the imagination of the people encountered, Romulo’s slow and melancholic voyage across the Pacific Ocean is almost immobile. This story of disappearances of land and of mysterious languages takes us aboard globalisation. We take a highly poetic dive into the mist and fog of the absurdity of transporting raw materials across our world, in which man manages to move mountains of them.
Madeline Robert
