Palomacia

Palomacia is a short film, made from the filming of two white doves in spatial relation with two mirrors, in games of multiplication, flights, wing flapping and details of their physiognomy. In voice-over we hear a text by philosopher Michael Marder, read by himself. This text, which was re-recorded for this film is a fragment of the lecture Plant Diplomacy, or on the Vegetal Fold Marder held at CAC: Centre of Art and Creativity (Torres Vedras, PT) in February 2022. The lecture revolved around the relations of diplomacy in plants and the idea of the fold as a primordial space for the exercise of diplomacy. The film proposes a metamorphosis between the appearance of white doves, symbols of peace, with their movement of wings folding in on themselves, and the descriptions of the behaviour of plants as mediators of ecosystems.