(69) is an experimental short film made from an extensive Super 8 archive filmed by Edmond Conilh de Beyssac, a French professional aviator. In context, everything was filmed in march of 1969, on a family trip around Brazil, during a political military dictatorship. My friend, the artist, Marie-Cécile Conilh de Beyssac, Edmond’s daughter, kindly donated this film material so I could invent other meanings. The challenge of working with this great and beautiful footage of Super 8 was transmuted into the idea of Anarchive, a concept created by the Canadian philosopher, Erin Manning, which I revisited and activated in a process of audiovisual experimentation, related to a current Brazil, which is still under the sign of multiple adversities.
Marcos Bonisson lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He is an artist, with a Master degree in Art Science (UFF) and, actually, a PhD student in Contemporary Art Studies (UFF). He participated in the 27th International São Paulo Biennial (2006), BIENALSUR (Argentina, 2019) and XXI International Bienal of Art of Cerveira, (Portugal, 2020). He published the books: Arpoador (2011), Pulsar (2013) and ZigZag (2018). His most recent solo exhibitions were at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM-Rio, 2013) and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP-Paris, 2015).
