Ghosts and Ruins of Progress at the Transamazon Highway: A film screening and talk by Brazilian visual artist Janaina Wagner
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Sponsor(s): Romance Studies
Ghosts and Ruins of Progress at the Transamazon Highway: A film screening and talk by Brazilian visual artist Janaina Wagner
April 17 at 5:30
Location: Smith Warehouse Bay 4, C 105
Drawing on the history of development projects in the Brazilian Amazon, Janaína Wagner's experimental films are investigations of the legacies of the past through a constellation of tales, facts, images and memories. Focusing especially on the Transamazon Highway, which "cuts like a scar through the Earth," her luscious work is a meditation on the ruins and ghosts of what was advertised as a road to the future.
We will show three of her recent films. For more on Wagner's work, see https://janainawagner.com/ABOUT
Contact: Ph.D. Gustavo Furtado