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A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a mise en abyme: it’s a pure enclosure inside the image world, it’s the Descent into the Maelstrom.
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Alexandre Alagôa, Tiago Videira, Vera Rodrigues, Bernardo Antunes, André Najovite
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