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Jorge Luis Borges once quoted a Cantonese legend describing the time when people could choose to live in a looking-glass world. Shapes and colours in the two dimensions were totally different; stepping through the glass meant a transformation into a different universe. Gradually the two populations grew apart, until the Looking-glass People decided to take over the world. The bloody conflict was won due to the magical powers of the Yellow Emperor. He locked the aggressors up in their looking-glasses and punished them further by obliging them to reflect slavishly, as in a horrible nightmare, every movement of the triumphant mortals. It has been predicted, however, that one day the force of the emperor's charm will weaken and the magical spell will be broken. At first the discrepancies will be small, but suddenly we will notice that they do not want to imitate us any longer. They will break out of their copper boundaries and then their revenge will be merciless.
Marcus Jorge applies this myth to the ambiguity of modern society by confronting our mythical and technological aspects with each other and - through a perfect, theatrical tric - causing them to merge. The video screen, divided into two frames, shows identical images but in a mirror-image: a woman, Narcissa, staring into the ripples of a yellow sea, a man who after a circular movement of 360° turns out to be staring at his own head on a monitor. It is followed by 'a small step for man but a giant leap for mankind': a television continues to snow even after it has been unplugged, the world is divided into a red and a green half of 3D and Armageddon has become reality. Eventually, however, recovery arrives: an angel walks in one landscape which is only cut in half by a vertical line.
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Erik Daams
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Camera: Luiz Henrique (Tarugo), Spina, Tarek Ben Abdallah, Light: Rodwil Bandeira, Marcio Moreira, Music: Atrium musicae de Madrid, Claude Debussy, Dead Can Dance, John Paul Jones, Arvo Pärt, With: Ana Font Julia, Renana, Federico Spano Zoe, Guiseppe Celani, Maria Luisa Celani, Marizio Celani, Ricky Giordanella, Jeanine Rhinow, Marisa Westphalen, Rodrigo Dias, Michela Montano, Dina Morrone, Lamberto Dorigo, With thanks to: Ana Paula Magalhaes and many others, Production: Paulo Munhoz, Maria Luisa Celani, Marco Jorge
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