Cobra da Cor

We invite you to join us for an experiment in tactile, analog and colour cinema. By holding colour snakes of film in our hands, and watching them projected on screen, we will investigate illusions: colour, movement, space and time.

Cobra da Cor will be a playful demonstration of tools, instruments and techniques that shape the practice of 16mm handmade films. Painted directly on blank film or shot in the camera and hand developed in location, a film will take shape in the course of the evening.
 

MELISSA DULLIUS  is an artist, filmmaker and teacher. She began as a self-taught artist in Brazil at the turn of the millennium, participating in art collectives, making and showing her first films and organizing exhibitions. It was at this time that her collaboration with Gustavo Jahn began. After moving to Europe in 2006, the two formed Distruktur.

Between art and film, experimental and narrative art, photography and moving image, her work takes various forms, such as films, animations, installations, objects, textile works, photography, printed matter, performance and music.

Since the beginnings, she has consistently worked with analog techniques and 16mm film, until today her main medium. She has been leading film workshops in various parts of the world since 2010. She is one of the founders of the analog film collective LaborBerlin e.V. in Wedding. Working with other artists, she is also active as an actress, camera and sound operator, producer, editor, projectionist, musician and translator.

Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries such as: Berlinische Galerie, The Film Gallery in Paris, SMC – Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, SESC-Belenzinho and Paço das Artes, both in São Paulo, MIS Ceará – Museu da Imagem e do Som in Fortaleza; as well as at festivals and streaming platforms: Forum Expanded of the Berlinale, Videobrasil, Mostra de São Paulo, Curta Cinema Rio, Cinemateca do MAM Rio, Kino Arsenal 3 and FIC Valdivia in Chile.