The film follows the voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. Amidst the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyses the human capacity to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a "New World".
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Leonardo Pirondi
Leonardo Pirondi is a Brazilian filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His films explore the infinite abyss between the multiple derived versions of reality through non-conventional structures of documentary, experimental, and narrative modes. His films have been exhibited worldwide at the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Viennale, and others.
Potenciais à Deriva (2024)
When We Encounter the World (2023)
Seja Bem-Vindo ao Lar (2023)
Visão do Paraíso (2022)
Effulgent Gleam (2022)
The Perfect Room (2022)
What Remains (2022)
If a Tree Falls in a Forest (2021)
In Search of Mount Analogue (2021)
Earth had issues Loading… (2020)
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Cartography has always been an impressionistic labor. Despite its scientific overtones, a naturalistic register was never a part of the old map-makers’ intent. Their process was a pure exercise in representation, a perceptive reconstruction guided as much by sensory impact as by mathematical calculation. Akin to cinematography, the scale, angle, and degree of detail didn’t come from an objective reality suddenly manifesting into the frame. Each decision was guided by a particular grounding. Political. Epistemological. Spiritual. No matter which, storytelling is integral to cartography.
In each stroke, fears, creedances, and hopes make their way into the cotton parchment. Unknown areas come to life by way of hushed whispers and mythmaking. Faraway lands are characterized by the alluring bounty they sheltered, closer in use to a quest giver than an academic reference. Maps of yore are almost hyperreal in nature. They exalt a point of view, and pass it as generalised perception. They exert hierarchies and delineate only the paths of interest to their creator.
One could easily dismiss the folk essence of old-school cartography as something superseded by the precision of Global Positioning Systems and satellite shots. However, their unfiltered bias and almost esoteric underlining make them bearers of many small and forgotten footnotes that would never see the day with the technocratic and precision-seeking tools of modernity. Their reconstruction of perceived realities holds weight as an almost ethnographical testament, a recollection of cultural idiosyncrasies, ideological standings, and oral tradition. That’s why Leonardo Pirondi’s Vision of Paradise starts zooming into the ornate nautical illustrations of ancient maps.
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