Pedro Geraldo

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Jun, a trans woman, is confronted with a vision of her own future when she has to look after her father in his hometown. Her father is elderly and partially immobilised after undergoing eye surgery in an attempt to solve a hereditary problem of sight loss. The imminence of eye degeneration meets the fear of what – quite literally – cannot be seen.

Following on from my previous work, I continue to explore visually the way in which a body positions itself in relation to others and to the landscape. In the materiality of these bodies and spaces, I am looking for a parallel with a fictional story. With this in mind, the film works on the concepts of movement and suspended time in the relationship between a body in transition (the daughter) and a body in decline (the father), both surrounded by a changing landscape.

Although this is a narrative film, the paths chosen are less conventional. Objects, landscapes and people coexist in the image without hierarchy, and the eye is guided by the details. With its lacunar framing and attention to the subtleties of the everyday life, the film touches on themes such as heredity, nature, gender and the bodily experience.

Pedro Geraldo

Pedro Geraldo (they/them), 1990, Brazil Lives in Roubaix, France. Graduated in Cinema Studies from FAAP in São Paulo. Worked as a cinematographer in short and feature films that have been exhibited at FIDMarseille, Rotterdam (IFFR) and IndieLisboa. Pedro concluded postgraduate studies both in Discourses of Contemporary Photography, at University of Lisbon, and Communication and Arts, at the New University of Lisbon. Their artistic research is associated with the ways of perceiving space in a constant dialogue with what is seen and what remains absent, especially how the body is observed and how it connects to the materiality of different landscapes. Sofia Foi, their first feature film, won the award for Best First Film at the 34th edition of FIDMarseille in 2023.

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