VIDEO WINDOW @ FUSO INSULAR 2024 – Video art festival in the Azores, Ponta Delgada
Thu 24 October 2024, 21:30, Igreja do Colegio (Museu Carlos Machado)
Dias & Riedweg: From Rio de Janeiro into Amazonia and beyond

Trailer: The Reverse of Heaven, 2023; video 4K, colour, sound, P/Esp/e, 38:00 min.

Invited by FUSO INSULAR 2024, VIDEO WINDOW presents at the video art festival in the Azores a programme entitled From Rio de Janeiro into Amazonia and beyond with three video works by the internationally renowned Brazilian-Swiss artist duo Dias & Riedweg based in Rio de Janeiro: two older ones, Funk Staden (2007) and The Mirror and the Dusk (2011), followed by the latest one The Reverse of Heaven (Port.: O Avesso do Céu, 2023).

After the Videoex Festival Zurich 2024 and FUSO 2024 Video art festival (16th edition) in Lisbon, the programme will be shown in the Azores for the third time. FUSO INSULAR has existed since 2019 and happens two months after the main festival in Lisbon by showing a selection.

The two first videos are located in Rio de Janeiro and its favelas, the third one leads us far from the city on the Atlantic into the middle of Amazonia to one of the largest indigenous territories in Brazil, the reserve in the Javari Valley on the triple border of Brazil, Peru and Colombia.

With political impetus, the essay-like new work tells of the neo-colonial exploitation in the Amazon region and skilfully interweaves three spheres into a dense composition: the endangered indigenous culture, the illegal timber industry and the power of religion with the penetrating evangelical missionary work and the presence of Israelites. The two other videos show locations and people in Rio de Janeiro's favelas and thematise difficult living environments and clichés.

After initial screenings in Brazil in 2023 at the international festival DOBRA for Experimental Cinéma in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and at the Galeria Vermelho in São Paulo, VIDEO WINDOW showed the latest work as an international premiere at Videoex - Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich in May 2024 accompanied by the two other videos.

The presentation at FUSO 2024 is supported by: the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (link)

Further information
FUSO INSULAR 2024, 24–27 October 2024 (link)
FUSO 2024, 16th edition, 27 August until 01 September 2024 (link)
Programme introduction: From Rio de Janeiro into Amazonia by Dias & Riedweg (pdf)
Synopses of the three videos (pdf)
Short biographies Dias & Riedweg (pdf)
Website Dias & Riedweg (link)
Videoex 2024 - Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich (link)

Screening programme (duration: 60:20 min.)

Funk Staden, 2007
Video HD, colour, sound, P, 13:38 min.

The Mirror and the Dusk, 2011
Video HD, colour, sound, 8:42 min.

The Reverse of Heaven, 2023
Video 4K, colour, sound, P/Esp/e, 38:00 min.