Cinema Caverna [Cave Cinema] explores the ruins of the TransAmazonian highway and its phantasmagoria, and nods to Robert Smithson’s The truly underground cinema idea, which, if executed, would have installed an actual cinema inside a cave. In the video, the moon breaks protocol and rises inside a cavern in Rurópolis, Pará, a company town built for workers laying the BR-163 back in the 1970s. It is here that the artist tells the history of the highway, stone by stone, and of its many ghosts and characters, such as the famous Erismar—who, fascinated with caves, discovered many of those cataloged in the region today. In one of these caves, the artist engineers an unlikely encounter and engenders, through image and narrative, a spellbinding atmosphere that locks the viewer away in a spatiotemporal dimension on the fringes of the habitual, where the ideas of progress and legacy are born of the intertwining and overlapping of the “Ley lines” running through narratives, facts, images, and memories.

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