Do Novo Mondo
5-Channel Video Installation · Short Film · 2022
An experimental documentary short film that imagines a world where a wild fungus wipes out rubber plantations, the hidden spine of global capitalism. An underground resistance movement emerges guided by the powerful sexual spores of the wild Amazonian rubber trees.
"New Worlders" points at the nickname colonisers gave to Americans, but also to the capacity to build new worlds. A research-based speculative near-future sci-fi story about the history and future of rubber — a hidden backbone of the global economy, much at the edge of collapse due to, in part, an unruly fungus.
It concerns biopiracy in times of genetic engineering, the scope of synthetic fantasies, global production chains of supply, ecology, scientific innovation and interspecies resistance.
Credits
Producer, Writer and DirectorFlora Reznik
3D ArtistMartin Menso
CameraAriela Bergman and Jesse Bom
Sound Recording and PostJorrit van Rijn
Editor and Image PostFlora Reznik
MusicTomer Baruch
TrumpetTal Avraham
Cast
VoiceAnne La Berge
PerformersYun Lee, Tommy Ventevogel, Elen Braga, Mano Daniel Szollosi and Vera Goetzee
Supported by
Mondriaan Fonds Young Talent Stipendium