DANIELA DELGADO VITERI

“I asked a man what the Law was. He answered that it was the guarantee of the exercise of possibility. That man was named Galli Mathias. I ate him“

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Oswaldo de Andrade, Cannibalistic Manifesto

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Shortcuts is a serie of videos with imaginary interviews with people who take shortcuts in daily life. One of the characters states that, once a year, he feels the need to create a human-scale doll of the president, dance with it and then burn it in the street, but not before placing explosives inside it. This character is what we call a good walker. A good walker is someone who knows how to take shortcuts. Being a good walker is very challenging these days; it requires a lot of intelligence and dopamine. Taking shortcuts is a good strategy to avoid being eaten alive by hegemony.

 

Shortcuts is a short film created during a residency at Unidee Cittadelarte, from personal archives filmed on minidv since 2011. The aim is to reflect self-critically on the power relations established in hegemonic film narratives and the ways of portraying our territory. Shortcuts is also a tribute to the resistance and cleverness of the people close to me who inhabit my archives.

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