Furious Sea of Carbon

The eruption of the volcano on the Cape Verde’s island of Fogo in 1951, as seen through the lens of Orlando Ribeiro and reclaimed in the Daughters of Fire by Pedro Costa, draws us into a state of exception of dark labor of poetic images, scattered matter of visual thinking, and a carbon sea that evokes eternal processes of disintegration and renewal of meaning, echoing the poetic motifs of Danijel Dragojević. The transnational FURIOUS SEA OF CARBON links the marginal exaltation of matter from the Mediterranean of Ivan Martinac and Damir Očko, through the volcanic chant of Cape Verde, to the mosaic sine-Sahel where The Otolith Group condenses the saturation by Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty.

Program is made in collaboration with the project Film Mutations: Series of Invisible Cinema. Curated by Tanja Vrvilo

Pedro Costa

Les filles du feu (As filhas do fogo / Kćeri vatre)

2023, 9 min

Ivan Martinac  

Izgnanstvo (Exile)

1979-81, 12 min

Damir Očko

SPRING

2013, 20 min

The Otolith Group

MASCON: A Massive Concentration of Black Experimental Energy (MASCON: Golema koncentracija crne eksperimentalne energije)  

2024, 35 min

Films and video works courtesy of: Pedro Costa, Clarão Companhia, The Otolith Group, LUX, Damir Očko, Ivan Vuković, Croatian State Archives, Croatian Film Archives.