Ricardo Aleixo: Afro-Atlantic

The film follows Ricardo Aleixo, a Brazilian poet and intermedia performer, in the cities of Boston, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte, using various media to translate his thoughts, including video manipulation and Super 8.

Ricardo Aleixo is a poet and intermedia performer from Brazil. The film follows the artist in the cities of Boston, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte, where he vocalizes his poems, interacts with the environment, and talks about his creative process and his condition of marginality, blackness, and monocular vision. The film makes use of several media to translate Aleixo＇s thought and poetics, such as video manipulation and analogue Super 8 material, creating a space in which literature and cinema are in constant dialogue and tension in order to overcome their limits.