Rite of Passage

RITO DE PASSAGEM Brazil | 2014 | videodance | 11 min | Full HD & 35 mm

awards & festivals

Awarded Best Direction at 2014 FICCA.
Winner at the 2014 Videomovimiento International Videodance Competition (Colombia).
Selected in 44 international festivals in 24 countries since its launch in July 2014 ...

reviews

A film about becoming, transition and the search for one’s identity.
What binds us to the past? What are our own private rites of passage? How can the body express the sometimes violent nature of change? What is the act of "becoming"?

"The body is a frontier and passageway, a body-as-subject which transmits and bears witness to vital, philosophical and political circumstances ...

“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”
- Gilles Deleuze

director's statement

"I dance not in a place, I dance the place." Min Tanaka's words have been of great inspiration to me.
I chose to dance the spirit of an old abandoned ...