Alto Paraiso is a short performance film directed by Lafawndah.
Set in the eponymous Brazilian community, Alto Paraiso documents an intimate meeting with artist and musician Delfina Mun, with whom Lafawndah had a chance encounter shortly prior to filming.
In Mun, Lafawndah detected a musical practice cosmic in scope - filled with endless becomings, reconciliations of the elements, exchanges of vegetal and sonic intelligence, and xenharmonic dimensions.
Capturing the songs and words of Mun in low-lit reverie, the film invokes the patient, crystalline consciousness of Apitchapong Weerasthethakul as much as the soft-focus, dragon- chasing hypnagogia of Cocteau.
Alto Paraiso unfolds the lullaby as the crossroads of song, landscape, plants, history and future.
Edited by Juliette Penant
Color Grading by Alexandra Pocquet
Mixed by Nick Weiss
Graphic Design by Kim Cousee
In partnership with Lafayette Anticipations
Fondation des Galeries Lafayette
Featuring Delfina Mun
Additional Features by Carolina Niño and Lawfawndah
28 сен 2024
