In this experimental video-art essay, P.J. Marcellino resumes - as in After the War (2014), Riga (2018), Pravda (2021) - his go-to thematic combo: social critique, politics, truth, perception, the relentless 24/7 news cycle, and the ...See moreIn this experimental video-art essay, P.J. Marcellino resumes - as in After the War (2014), Riga (2018), Pravda (2021) - his go-to thematic combo: social critique, politics, truth, perception, the relentless 24/7 news cycle, and the dystopian emergence of 'alternative facts' in a populist and regressive world. Here -demonstrating that the personal is still, and always, political, nuanced, cacophonous - they appear interwoven with another major strand of his work: identity, belonging, and memory reclamation. Marcellino references personal memoir (Fogo Island, the volcano, his grandmother's papaya tree) in the same breath as political memory or found footage narrating overlapping -often competing- current political affairs. An ephemeral cinematic punk political poem originally showcased in a collective transmedia exhibit of Capeverdean film and video-art, in Sao Paulo, Brazil - Afrobliquities and Other Transversalities, part of the Tela d'Pano Terra: New Wave Cabo Verde showcase. Written by
Pedro José-Marcellino (P.J. Marcellino)
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