Cinemarkt - Uýra: The Rising Forest & Terra Mater: Motherland

Double Feature in the framework of Klima Biennale

25.04.2024, 20:00
Brunnenpassage, Brunnengasse 71, 1160 Wien

Uýra: The Rising Forest (Juliana Curi / Brazil and USA / Vo: Pt-Br, Sub: Fr-En, 2022, 60')
Uýra, a non-binary trans artist from Brazil, takes us on a transformative journey through the Amazon forest. Using elements from the forest, ancestral messages and indigenous representations, she embodies an entity traversed by multiple identities. Like her alter ego Emerson, biologist, activist and educator, she denounces structural racism, transphobia and environmental destruction. A radically poetic documentary, a fresh and different take on the Amazon, its locals and the new queer generation.

Terra Mater: Motherland (Kantarama Gahigiri / Rwanda, Switzerland / 2023, 10´)
Selbstbewusst steht sie da, wie eine Göttin des technologischen Schrotts. Um sie herum endlose Berge aus Müll, Plastik, Gestank und seltenen Erden. Ein zorniger Appell an die Welt, Verantwortung zu übernehmen für die Auswirkungen von Kapitalismus, Kolonialismus und Umweltzerstörung in Afrika.

After the screening Marissa Lobo will comment on Uýra with whom she has been working while Uýra was artist in residence bei kulturen in bewegung in Vienna 2023.

It takes place in the framework of Klimabiennale 2024.

Cinemarkt is an event of Brunnenpassage in cooperation with Volxkino.

Emerson [alias Uýra Sodoma] (Santarém, Brazil, 1991) is an indigenous performer, biologist, and educator from Manaus, an industrial territory in the middle of the Central Amazon. Uýra Sodoma is an alter-ego Emerson has embraced since his childhood spent in a village in Pará around a stream with clean water and forest. It is an organic and spiritual entity fostering the recovery of the rivers, the fertility of the soil, and the rich diversity of plant life nowadays at risk.  Uýra Sodoma’s photo and lecture performances have been presented internationally at Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022); 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin (2021); Barbican Centre, London (2021), amongst others.