Cabo do Mar//Undersea Cable

 

Screened at:

 

Tate Exchange

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

South London Gallery

MicroActs artists' film night, London

 

A relationship is constructed from two different territories. Undersea Cable is a micro essay film shot on mobile phones, which collects fragments of conversations using Skype. The audio provides an overlapping centre for the two protagonists’ cities, as they describe how they are transforming around them. The two cities grow strange through gentrification. The two women talk about their lives, families and politics in different contexts. Images and voices converge in moments of temporary connection and disconnection, suggesting ways in which new technologies create new geographies and forms of intimacy.

 

We are ‘orientated’ towards our external world - the spaces in which we live and dwell (such as cities) - in relation to what is immediate, what might be considered familiar. Queerness may be understood here as a state of ‘disorientation’ where multiple journeys, other forms of connection and desire, become possible.