Reel Brazil: Mutinies in video art
27 June – 30 November 2025
REEL BRAZIL explores creative resistance and aesthetic experimentations in radical video art and experimental cinema, drawing cultural parallels between Brazil’s post-dictatorship era and the UK’s Thatcher years – featuring an extensive collection of works from Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s Historical Collection with highlights of new moving images works on the deceased artist/rights-activist, Keith Armstrong (part of the NDMAC Archive) from the UK.
REEL BRAZIL’s 5 seasonal programmes will be screened across multiple venues in Folkestone and online, featuring over 25 historic and contemporary works in video art, experimental cinema, and digital commissions by over 27 international artists.
O Samba do Crioulo Doido
Samba of the Crazy Creole
O Samba do Crioulo Doido explores the eroticised black body and racial identities in Brazil, through the performance by Luiz de Abreu.
The title references a satirical song by Stanislaw Ponte Preta and deconstructs cliches of Brazilian cultures that symbolise Black Brazilian identities: samba, the carnival, and exoticised and eroticised body – reducing the black bodies as objectified spectacles for the ‘white’ gaze.
Preto e Branco
Black and White
Carlos Nader | 1hr 13min | 2004 | Brazil | Documentary
The documentary seeks to shed light on issues related to racial prejudice in Brazil through four stories of citizens and families from different strata of society who, in one way or another, are related to the subject. Is the country a racial democracy? Or is it a country that is racist only in the economic sector?
Ipê Amarelo
Yellow Ipê Tree
Naza Nazareth’s long journeys on foot explore borders and the global slave trade. The Yellow Ipê (golden trumpet tree) is a tree native to Brazil, a national symbol, recognised for its exuberant yellow blossoms. In Ipê Amarelo, the artist repeats the act of circling the Tree of Oblivion several times. The performative gesture, a poetic attempt at rewinding history.
Talk About Body
The video creates a strange scenario in which the artist, dressed in a hijab as a Muslim woman. Facing a group of adults, she delivers a dead pan monologue which analyses her own body in detail and objectively as if a piece of specimen – such as her body structure, physiognomy characteristics and blood lineage, racial and regional typology.
JOURNAL
Moving images by nina shen
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