sol archer
“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes.”
Dionne Brand
Ensaiar é invocar um Outro Mundo
To Rehearse is to Invoke another World
Short film
Duration: 22:16 mins
4:3 4k (UHD) Stereo Audio
Year: 2019
Spoken: BR Portugese, English
It documents rehearsal, hanging out, preparation, competition, and care; acts towards building a community as a generative space of resistance through elective assembly and shared interest. Through a non-linear and rhythmically repetitive structure, the film reflects the bagginess of time that characterises youth cultures of hanging out and appropriating space without ownership.
In a political moment in Brazil which is deeply dangerous to be queer, female, black, poor, or trans, this community are consciously acting to build a space to exist in public, producing a highly visible presence for oppressed minorities. Over weekends spent with this community, recording rehearsal, performance, and moments of care, and shooting videos for their online channels, the film follows fragments from conversations about the nature of their community and their reflections on their collective creative practice as an act of resistance, by making and remaking images with bodies. Worlds in Formation documents moments of collective practice, creating spaces of care, resistance, and survival, and producing counter- publics in the city, staging rehearsal as the conjuring up of a desired world within the confines of the present.