Adrift Potentials
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“The reassembled fragments of a film that never was, reflecting on exile from Brazil from distant lands.”
This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. 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 comprised of disembodied interviews, empty rooms, radio recordings, soccer games, and sudden apparitions of the filmmaker that slowly ruminates 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 mere attempt to produce a film with these otherwise lost images.
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Leonardo Pirondi Director
First release January 26, 2024 · Produced in Brazil, United States · Languages English, Portuguese
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Production
Brazil · United States
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Original title
Potenciais à Deriva
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
English · Portuguese
Release dates
Netherlands · January 26, 2024
Premiere · IFFR - Tiger Short Competiton
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 7, 2024 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
October 9, 2024 · Physical · Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Hong Kong SAR China
April 11, 2025 · Premiere · The 49th Hong Kong International Film Festival
April 17, 2025 · Physical · The 49th Hong Kong International Film Festival
Portugal
July 12, 2024 · Premiere · Curtas Vila do Conde
South Korea
July 18, 2024 · Premiere · EXiS
United Kingdom
August 16, 2024 · Premiere · Edinburgh International Film Festival
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