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Melanie Smith

Fordlandia

Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City

Artist
Melanie Smith
Title
Fordlandia
Year
2014
Duration
29 min 43 s
Format & Technical

Video Full HD

Fordlandia is a small settlement on the River Tapajos in the Brazilian part of the Amazon, where Henry Ford set up a rubber industry in the 1920’s. Mainly due to the resistance of nature the project failed and was abandoned some twenty years later. The film “Fordlandia” is a voyage of (de)colonization whereby the drifts and detours of modernity in uncertain places are highlighted, turning away from whatever their historical imaginaries were. The tensions between industrial and natural landscape are leveled off in a certain horizontality of hierarchies between form and content, and at the same time the animal resignifies possibilities the community of the living.

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