ABISSAL
2021 | 12' | color | 16:9Portugal
[a film by Pedro F Neto & João Baptista]
Images courtesy of EMEPC (with IST-ULisboa, Blue Edge, DOP-U.Açores, DSOR Lab, iMAR-U.Açores)
As it defines and shapes nature in the ocean floor, technoscience creates new territories, new borders, further interrogating the future of humanity. What does it mean to render the uncharted visible, to draw the boundaries of “nature,” and to transform the abyss into a vertigo of human desire?
Published in Environment and Planning C: Space and Politics in 2025
Public Screenings:
- Porto Design Biennale 2023, Org. Fundação Thyssen-Bornemisza (PT)
- II Congreso Internacional de Arte + Ciencia “ Las Aguas”, UNSAM, Buenos Aires, 2023 (AR)
- Festival Entre-Olhares 2023 (PT)
- Mostra de Antropologia e Cinema - VIII Conferência APA 2022, Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (PT)
- Neum Underwater International Film Festival 2022, (Bosnia-Herzgovina) — honorable mention
- International Underwater Film Festival of Belgrade 2022 (Serbia)
- Film Geographies 2022 // AAG Shorts - Annual Conference - American Association of geographers 2022 (USA)
- Riga Pasaules Film Festival, 2022 (LV)
- FICA 2021- Feira Internacional de Ciência Oeiras (PT)
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