SPELL
Feitiço
Thursday, Sept 12 at 6:00 PM
The Cinematheque
Screens before Elis & Tom
Director: Khalil Charif
Brazil | 2023 | No dialogue | 6 min
Sliding Scale Tickets (Spell + Elis & Tom):
$13 / $15 / $18 / $21
Plus $3 VLAFF Membership required
Consulate Partner:
A spell is cast on the dance floors, and it transforms the atmosphere. An experimental combination of elements, made with archive footage from the 70s and 80s, in Rio de Janeiro. Sensory stimuli and traces of a documentary past are captured and thrown into an imaginary present, a fabulation beyond the fascination of the night, towards a re-enchantment with life, with being together, interweaving conviviality and liberation.
Um feitiço é lançado nas pistas de dança, e transforma a atmosfera. Uma combinação experimental de elementos, onde estímulos sensoriais e vestígios de um passado documental são capturados e lançados a um presente imaginário, uma fabulação indo ao encontro do reencantamento com a vida, com o estar junto, entrelaçando convívio e libertação.
Official Selection, Mostra de cinema de Ouro Preto, 2024
Official Selection, Partyfilme, Kurzfilm Festival, 2024
Best Experimental Short, LatinUy – Festival Internacional de Cine Latino de Uruguay, 2023
Khalil Charif is an artist, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1967. He studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, and obtained a postgraduate degree in Art History at PUC-Rio. He was one of the recipients of the awards: “Prêmio Interações Florestais” (Brazil, 2011), “ExperimentoBIO” (Spain, 2013), Special Prize in the “Arte Laguna Prize” (Italy, 2017 and 2020). Among his exhibitions are: Triennale of Contemporary Art (Czech Rep., 2008), Bienal de Cerveira (Portugal, 2017 and 2020), BIENALSUR (Argentina, 2019 and 2021), Media Art Biennale WRO (Poland, 2021).