Length 34’ | Format 1.77:1 | HD | Documentary Short
Denmark | Germany | Brasil | Portugal | 2018
Written and Directed by Lasse Lau | Cinematography Valentina Summa | Editing Lasse Lau, Max Schneider | Sound Max Schneider | Color correction | Andreas Birch, Johs Møgelvang | with comments by James Clifford Deuzimar Cruz Lopes | ocus puller Samuel Amaral |key grip Pedro Santos | research assistant Lara Morais | location assistant Kamila Metwaly | security Jorge Manuel Courela Chaves | Produced by Kran Film Collective
The film came together as is a collaboration between the filmmaker and the German sound artist Max Schneider. Together they traveled Brazil to sound record 17 unique plants. The film features an interview with professor James Clifford, author of "The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art" (1988), "Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century" (1997), and Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century" (2013).