Bruno Mendes da Silva, professor at the University of Algarve and researcher at the Center for Research in Arts and Communication (CIAC), is one of the international guests of the “The script Road – Macau Literary Festival”, in which he will make the inaugural presentation of the three possible versions of the film: the linear version, the film installation Exquis Cadavre Expanded, which interacts with the viewer through body movements, and the online version, which is also interactive.
The programming of the code that guarantees the viewer the experience of interactivity was ensured by three specialists who collaborate on this project: António Araújo (CIAC-UAb), Juan Escribano (CIAC) and Fatih Kan (ISE – UAlg).
With surrealist inspiration, Exquis cadavre is a project that comes as a result of The paths that fork and that seeks the subversion of the filmic discourse through the fragmentation of the spatiotemporal unit.
Three characters are in the same room, motionless, crystallized in time. What are they doing there? How did they get there?
Em Exquis Cadavre Expanded, to discover, the spectator has the possibility of approaching or moving away from each character, being able to select them.
In the linear version, choices are made in an autonomous way that aims to simulate the viewer's potential choices. Each choice results in an analepsis until the moment of crystallization. By choosing the last character, the viewer will unfreeze the opening scene, setting it in motion.
For this project, 3 screenwriters were invited, each one was assigned a character, with the authors having full creative freedom in the construction of analepses. One of these scripts, as well as the voice-over correspondent, was in charge of Vítor Reia-Batista, to whom the film pays homage.
Founded in 2012, in the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR), the Literary Festival it began as the first and largest meeting of literati from China and Portuguese-speaking countries ever organized in the world.
In recent years, the Festival has gained notoriety, becoming an international event that welcomes writers, editors, translators, journalists, musicians, filmmakers and plastic artists from different geographies and nationalities. This year, the Festival takes place between 15 and 24 March.
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