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VISION OF PARADISE

Leonardo Pirondi
Brazil, USA, UK, 2022
16 min.

Maps of the 15th century could sometimes render both the real and the imaginary. Visão do Paraíso follows the search for a mythical island in the “New World”, while exploring the capacity of human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments and to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a new kind of “New World”.

Up to what point can we render immediate reality, itself a comforting, imperfect imitation of the perfect, conceptual world? Up to what point can we vectorise reality before it ceases to be a grid and becomes the main point of reference? Ah, the comfort one can take in knowing that the power supplying the digital worlds can simply be turned off and unplugged. But the threats of the “real world”, gruesome as they might be, cannot just disappear. These are the questions Visão do Paraíso will make you wonder about. Perhaps the paradox of technology as an imminent, yet so undefinable threat is that, more often than not, those who fear it the most are precisely the ones actively working day and night to make possible our hypothetical destruction (or at least our obsolescence). (Emil Vasilache)

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Wednesday, 27th of September | 18:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Leonardo Pirondi

Leonardo Pirondi is a Brazilian filmmaker based in Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Porto. Much of his work uses analog and digital manipulations on celluloid to examine the sociopolitical unfoldings of the intersections between imagination, science, myth, and technology. His films have been exhibited at various film festivals, institutions, and venues internationally, such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, BFI London, Melbourne, Edinburgh, True/False, Ambulante, Curtas Vila do Conde, Guanajuato, Wexner Center, REDCAT, and others. Some of his work exists in the collection of Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York. He holds a Film/Video degree from CalArts, is a Sundance Ignite Fellow, and is the recipient of the Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund and the Tim Disney Prize for Excellence in the Storytelling Arts.

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  • Production and distribution
  • DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, EDITING: Leonardo Pirondi
  • WITH: David OReilly, Douglas Goodwin, Leonardo Pirondi, Jackson Fletcher, George Tramell, Dan Dixon
  • FILM PROCESSING: Alix Blevins, Leonardo Pirondi
  • SOUND: Andrew Kim, Leonardo Pirondi
  • SUPPORTED BY: Galeria Mola, CalArts Film/Video Project Grant
  • PRODUCED BY: Leonardo Pirondi

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Maps of the 15th century could sometimes render both the real and the imaginary. Visão do Paraíso follows the search for a mythical island in the “New World”, while exploring the capacity of human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments and to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a new kind of “New World”.

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