Rita Macedo
Rita Macedo is a filmmaker and video artist based in Berlin • Fascinated by the poetic affinity between moving images and fluxes of thought, Rita’s works often operate within the realm of documentary and speculative fiction, with a focus on meaning, memory and history • Her work has been shown at numerous festivals, amongst others at European Media Art Festival, Berwick Film and Media Art Festival, Shortfilm Festival Hamburg, IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, New Horizons International Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Encounters South Africa Documentary Film Festival • Since 2018 she works as an artistic collaborator at the Braunschweig University of Art.
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This particular nowhere
Film • 09′ 07″ • sound (ST) • EN • 2015
Departing from Eugene Wigner’s thought experiment, this work ponders the observers and the observed within a cinematic experience. We’re embraced in sound whilst being taken to other larger and undefinable ‘beginnings’, ‘heres’ and ‘nows’ that point back to ourselves, our universe(s) and our beings.
Written and directed by Rita Macedo • Camera and light Martin Sulzer, Vika Kirchenbauer • Editing and post production Rita Macedo, Martin Sulzer • Text Rita Macedo • Original soundtrack by MAUD • Sound mixing Daniel John Boyle • Sound mastering Douglas Henderson • Funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian