Potenciais à deriva (2024)
Leonardo Pirondi
Potenciais à deriva, Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil, 16mm > digital, 11.5 min, 2024
Potenciais à deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los Angeles, California. Isolated shots and previously assembled scenes reveal an intention to create a mysterious film composed of disembodied interviews, empty rooms, radio recordings, soccer games, and sudden apparitions of the filmmaker that slowly ruminate on Brazil’s colonial past, North American imperialism, and the military dictatorship of the time in a paranoid and anxious manner. Be aware that the film’s final version never came to exist. This version presented is my meagre attempt to produce a film with these otherwise lost images.
Streaming Details
This film is available to stream globally.
Program Partners
This film is co-presented with Artcite Inc.
Image credits: all artworks, portraits, and stills courtesy the artist © Leonardo Pirondi.
About the artist
Leonardo Pirondi (Brazil) is a filmmaker and artist born in São Paulo in 1999. His films create friction between documentary and fictional structures, emerging from the fabulation of sociopolitical resonances within culture, myths, history, technology, and image-making. He received an MFA from the School of Film/Video at CalArts. Pirondi’s previous films, including Benning’s Dream (2020), In Search of Mount Analogue (2021), Visions of Paradise (2022), and When We Encounter the World (2023), have been exhibited at numerous festivals, museums, and galleries worldwide, including Toronto International Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Viennale, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Wexner Center for the Arts, REDCAT, DokuFest, Guanajuato International Film Festival, and Spectacle Theater. His work is in the collections of UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. He is a 2023 Sundance Institute Fellow and has received a Tim Disney Prize for Excellence in the Storytelling Arts (2022). His feature-length film Fractais Tropicais, about a crew of Brazilian archivists on board a biodome spaceship, is currently in postproduction. He lives and works between Los Angeles, Porto and São Paulo.