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Unfamiliar Ceiling/THE BEAST - Diacritics
Unfamiliar Ceiling/THE BEAST was made in February 2018, after a tough 2017. It was summer and the summers in Rio are getting warmer and warmer every year. On this particular day, it had rained a little, but without getting any colder. Gray was the color of the day, but the film is red, pinkish, as if the world itself is dusking, in its late afternoon.
Could I make a film shot entirely inside a bedroom during a a single day, trying to make you see time while at the same time understanding that the end of a perspective meant the end of a world? I had seen Chantal Akerman’s La chambre (1972) and Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967), so this is a film that exists after them, after their experiments in filmmaking. We’re facing the dead hours of description, lack of action—and we take it seriously. Things would get worse in 2018, I just didn’t know it at this time.
Lucas Ferraço Nassif is a filmmaker and researcher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has directed and edited films, including Being Boring and Reinforced Concrete. Being Boring, a feature-film, was screened in several festivals including the Janela Internacional do Cinema de Recife. Reinforced Concrete, a short film, is part of Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann’s video project Labour in a Single Shot, which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. His PhD thesis, “Full Of Missing Links” takes the works of Chantal Akerman as its main object in order to theorize description as an artistic and theoretical operator.
Email: lucasferraco@gmail.com
