WHERE CAN I GET LOST?
Mattijs van de Port | Netherlands 2024 | 70 min. | Portuguese, English with engl. subtitles
TUESDAY, 13.05. | 5 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian premiere
In presence of Mattijs van de Port
To let go, to lose oneself in nature, in madness and ecstasy, in the act of love or even in the world itself. The untamed wilderness of the neighbouring jungle contrasts with the linear structures and textures of the city. Between recurring floral patterns, concrete streets and sacred objects, Mattijs Van de Port enters the gay community of Bahia in search of moments of detachment.
WHERE CAN I GET LOST? emerges as a playful abstraction and an intimate search for meaning, driven by the curiosity to escape the control of body and mind and to defy social conventions in order to free oneself completely, even if only for a moment.
Director: Mattijs van de Port
Camera: Mattijs Van de Port
Editing: Mattijs Van de Port
Sound: Mattijs Van de Port
Production: OLD QUEENS WITH CAMERAS
AWARDS & SCREENINGS
Festival International Jean Rouch, Paris
Ethnofest, Athens
Etnografilm, Paris
Oczy i Objiektywy, Warsaw
Kick Off International Film Festival, Warsaw (award winner)
MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York (honorable mention)
Lavender Riot Film Festival, Clarcksville, Tennessee
BIOGRAPHY
Mattijs van de Port is a visual anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam. In his films, all of them shot in Brazil, he keeps returning to realms of transgression – ecstatic religion, violence, eroticism and aesthetics – where humans face the fact that the world does not necessarily comply with their narrations of it. His filmwork includes Saborear Frutas Brasileiras (2013), about the joy of eating fruits and the essay films The Possibility of Spirits (2016); Knots and Holes (2018); The Body Won’t Close (2021); and Where Can I Get Lost (2024)? Van de Port’s films won several awards and prizes, including the prestigious Basil Wright Film Prize in 2021 and the Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award in that same year.
