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“Wind-Eye” at Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival

Irina Oliveira, Masters in Arts of Sound and Image

FILM SELECTION NEW CINEMA COMPETITION
NOVEMBER 28TH, 3.15PM, FILM SHOWING
PASSOS MANUEL

Irina Oliveira (1999), is a multidisciplinary artist with in-depth studies on the threshold between cinema and video installation. She has a master’s degree in Arts of Sound and Image from ESAD.CR (2024), where she also graduated in Sound and Image (2020). In 2021, she won a Sophia award from the Portuguese Cinema Academy, in the Cinema category Experimental/Student, with her film “Semear, Ouvir, Fluir”, which participated in several national and international cinema festivals. She has been participating in some collective artistic exhibitions, especially in the city of Caldas da Rainha. She held workshops and artistic residencies, in which she came into contact with artists such as Luísa Homem, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, David Bonneville and João Dias.

Wind-Eye

Irina Oliveira

(15:00)

Wind is actually air moving due to temperature differences in the atmosphere. Although invisible, it affects our behaviour depending on how angry it is or whether it is so dry and hot, like the desert, which drives people crazy. It is an essential phenomenon for fishermen, it helps them cross the sea and can change the course of their journeys. Next to the sea, on a winter day, I noticed that the force of the wind left the birds motionless no matter what, as they tried to move, as if whispering to them to give up and let themselves go. I realized that the wind both carries and arrests, both cradles and destroys. How can you see and feel the wind? Wind-Eye investigates the concept of the threshold through the figures of the wind, the mirror, and a ghost body. It is a video graphic work with autobiographical elements in which the author reflects on her own personal experiences and the impact they had on her artistic practice. Wind-Eye is multiple: it is located in the interval, on the threshold between apparent opposites such as the interior/exterior. It is a body simultaneously paralyzed, but in constant transit. It is located in the virtual place of the mirror in the gloom of the window, in the bottomless abyss, in the whirlwind of the vortex, in the unsettling strangeness of what should be hidden, but emerged, his body is a ghost: kidnapped by the wind.

Production credits
2024, 15′, 16:9, Colour, Sound
Filming locations: West Zone of Portugal, Scotland and Morocco;
Author: Irina Oliveira;
Music: Irina Oliveira, Jorge Castanho.