Wagner Morales (BR) | Wild Life

SYNOPSIS

This work functions like an ethnographic register of the wild life. But, instead of pointing the camera to the animals or native tribes, the lens are focused on a group of tourists drifting in a boat trip through the glacial of Patagonia. Used to the massive and compulsive images production, the group reacts with an animal indifference in front of the camera. The dramatic character of the synphonic music associated to the film images clashes with the indifferent attitude of the tourists.
The crescendo of the music provokes a cumulation of tension and the feeling that a tragedy is going to happen any moment. The film ends up without a climax, the tourists continue their trip, without being aware of the risk they were going through. Only the viewer was feeling the danger and now, while relieving from the tension, reflects of the strength of cinematographic devices.

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY

Wagner Morales was born in 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil. His work has been shown at Videoformes 2008 in Clermond-Ferrant, France and in various international events in 2007 such as the 16th Videobrasil in São Paulo, at Centre George Pompidou in Paris in occasion of Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid and at MNAC Museum National of Contemporary Art of Bucharest in Romania.
In 2007 he received an honourable mention at the 3rd Muestra Monográfica de Media Art in Manizales, Colombia.

FILMOGRAPHY

Documentaries

• No caminho de Drummond/On Drummond’s way, 2007
• I like Girls in Uniform, 2005
• Preto contra branco/Black against White, 2004
• Na lona/On the Canvas, 2002
• Olhos opacos/Opaque Eyes, 1999
• Bali: fragmentos de um cotidiano em tensão/day by day life shorcuts, 1996

Experimental videos

• Seven Graces for a Boy, 2007
• Fazer um vídeo/To make a Vídeo, 2007
• Uma noite no escritório/Office at Night, 2007
• Film de cul, 2006
• Le bonnes maniéres, 2006
• The Koki Tanaka Show, 2006
• Wild Life, 2006
• Cha cha cha, 2006
• Ewá #1 and #2, 2004
• Em busca do surfista prateado/Searching Silver Surfer, 2004
• Solitária, pobre,, 2004
• Sórdida, embrutecida e curta, filme de guerra, 2003
• Cassino, filme de estrada/Cassino, Road Movie, 2003
• Faixa escondida/Hidden Track, 2003
• Filme de horror/Horror Movie, 2003
• Ficção científica/Science Fiction, 2003
• Rossi 22, 2002
• Não há ninguém aqui #2 e #3/There’s Nobody here #2 and #3, 2001
• Não há ninguém aqui #1/There’s nobody here # 1, 2000