Mercúrio Vermelho

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# Contamination, Contagion, El-dorado, Vocoder, Neo-Orpheus, Oracle Machine, Mineral Blood, Prosthetic Vampire, Bacteriological Lake, Red Death Mask, Necromancer, Subsonic, Surface, Landscape # An oracular monodrama based on a mineral-organic testimony. Mercúrio Vermelho (Red Mercury) is an acoustic and visual journey that follows the delirium of the extraction of precious metals through the testimony of one of its most elusive figures, red mercury. This monologue is meant for a synthetic voice and is performed by a vampire - he who sucks the blood of the earth - at a threshold where both contaminate one another, evoking their crossed paths as well as the multiple stories, myths and conspiracy theories that surround them. Shot in Kampala, Uganda, during the covid-19 lockdown, Mercúrio Vermelho is screened as a synthetic landscape through which the visitor has to walk. - Jonathan Saldanha