Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Twice a winner at the Festival – in the 17th and 18th editions –, Mascaro discusses his experience during the artist residency undertaken in Clermont  Ferrand, France, at Videoformes. He gives his take on the deconstruction of the act of filming, whereby the director’s gaze is outsourced, or decentralized, a key process to all his video works. In As Aventuras de Paulo Bruscky, the camera is replaced with screen shots from the game Second Life; in Domésticas, the camera is handed over to the children of people who had domestic workers in their homes, so they could record the daily routines of said workers, and then return the raw footage to the artist. Thus, a tangled web of power and hierarchy was formed between the youths, the maids,  and Mascaro himself. He also discusses his future and nearly-completed works, one of which was created using intercepted images from the helmets of American soldiers in Afghanistan.