"In the encounter with her own mask, everything becomes a field of experimentation"
Lulled by flickering lights and distorted melodies, a woman wanders in a state of trance. Each gesture, an annulment. Each relief, the next treacherous stumble. In the encounter with her own mask, everything becomes a field of experimentation between desires and agonies, light and blood.
Mads Estrada
Máscara
Natacha Fernandes
Mulher
Lulled by flickering lights and distorted melodies, a woman wanders in a state of trance. Each gesture, an annulment. Each relief, the next treacherous stumble. In the encounter with her own mask, everything becomes a field of experimentation between desires and agonies, light and blood.
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