Open Call Winner
Artistic Residencies Program 2019/2020
Alice dos Reis will work on the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. An island of geological and paleontological singularity, where the construction of the first European low-cost space station is planned. Located in the middle of the Atlantic, it is believed that Santa Maria is one of the possible locations of the lost city of Atlantis as described by Plato. Starting from this myth of a technologically advanced utopian civilization that succumbed to its self-righteousness, Alice dos Reis project considers a series of fictions that are alternative to contemporary space exploration projects. The research, which will mainly converge on a short film, will make use of speculative fiction and experimental documentary format to re-imagine possible futures and cosmologies of the island in the context of its rapid development in a space travel port.