An announced tragedy.
In January 2021, the world’s lungs lacked oxygen. In Manaus, capital of Amazonas, dozens of people, including newborns, died in public hospitals due to lack of oxygen.
The lack of oxygen also affected the state of Pará and a parallel sale of oxygen cylinders is spreading across the North of the country. The necropolitics spreads throughout Brazil.
Sans oxygènie (Out of breath) is an experimental short film that opens the trilogy of Devir, which I hope to do in 2021, based on a worldwide pandemic scenario. Set in Paris, the film looks at Brazil from Paris, especially the tragedy of the Amazon region, where France shares its largest border with Brazil, the French Guyana. The choice of black and white, especially a grayish white, marks a scenario of si-fic, in which the future is the present. When could we imagine that we would run out of oxygen? Inspired by real facts, such as the lack of oxygen cylinders in the hospitals of northern Brazil, the film fictionalizes reality and express it in images of pain and death, when words are not a possibility.
