Ghosts and Ruins of Progress at the Transamazon Highway: A film screening and talk by Brazilian visual artist Janaina Wagner

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