THE CROSSING

An outcast makes a journey through a dam in Sierra Maestra, place of origin of the Cuban Revolution. As in a short story, we are guided through this attenuate landscape gradually crossing the delineae cartography of a body that with every movement is diluted, finally becoming one with the habitat.

OTAVIO ALMEIDA

Photographer from Piauí, Brazil; living in São Paulo since 2011. Graduated at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba, specializing in documentary filmmaking. Studied at the Comtemporary Art program of the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Also has participated in the IDFA Academy and the Visións du Réel Forum. Otávio collaborates with media companies, producing in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and institutions who work with social and environmental activist issues, such as Greenpeace, Instituto Socioambiental, Instituto Elos, Futura TV and SESC TV. His work as a photographer was exhibited at the IV Photography Show of Sao Paulo, at the X Biennale of Architecture in Sao Paulo. In addition to presenting projections during the 8th Paraty in Focus (2012) and the selection for the art program RUMOS (2017) from Itaú Cultural with the project Sentirgrafia, a creative research in photography for blind people.

• IDFA Amsterdam

DOKer 2020 — Short Competition