A body defies its exterior; wanders through the path from the impotency to the vital force. The body gradually fuses with the elements around it – a clay building, a valley, a river – striving to balance the inner and outer world.

AWARDS
Best Experimental Video | CineAmazonia International Festival of Environmental Films, Porto Velho, Brazil
Honorary Award | Sopot Independent Film Festival, Sopot, Poland
Best Experimental Film, nominated | Izmir Short Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Portobello Film Festival | London, UK
Video-Dance Festival of Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires, Argentina
VAD Video and Digital Arts International Festival | Girona, Spain
Mostra do Filme Livre | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Videoformes Video and New Medias in Contemporary Art | Clermont-Ferrand, France
Zemos98 | Seville, Spain
FAM Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul | Florianópolis, Brazil
Mostra Audiovisual Dança em Pauta | São Paulo, Brazil
CineAmazonia International Festival of Environmental Films | Porto Velho, Brazil
Sopot Independent Film Festival | Sopot, Poland
Izmir Short Film Festival | Izmir, Turkey
Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival | Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival | Naoussa, Greece
Videolab Coimbra | Coimbra, Portugal
Festival Images Contre Nature / P'Silo | Marseille, France
The First and the Last Experimental International Film Festival | Sydney, Australia

GALLERY and ART SPACE EXHIBITIONS
Wallpaper | Sala Fittke, Trieste, Italy
Environments | Pátio da Inquisição, Coimbra, Portugal
Red: The Gendered Color in Frames | Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kika Nicolela | Atrium Gallery, Kalamazoo, US
A Arte de Kika Nicolela | 1ª Mostra Sesc Rio de Arte Eletrônica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kika Nicolela: Selected Videos | Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, US
Flux | Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil

SPECIAL SCREENINGS and RETROSPECTIVES
Manipulated Image: the Moving Still | Santa Fe, US
Re:Play Kika Nicolela | Eden343, São Paulo, Brazil
Retrospectiva Kika Nicolela | Espaço Unibanco de Cinema, São Paulo, Brazil
Kika Nicolela Retrospective | Film Klub Póznan, Póznan, Poland

CREDITS
concept and directing>> KIKA NICOLELA and SUZY OKAMOTO
performer and movement research>> LETICIA SEKITO
director of photography>> CHING C. WANG
editing>> KIKA NICOLELA

INFO
Brazil, 2005, 11 minutes
Color, stereo, no dialogues, aspect ratio 4x3

A body defies its exterior; wanders through the path from the impotency to the vital force. The body gradually fuses with the elements around it – a clay building, a valley, a river – striving to balance the inner and outer world.

AWARDS
Best Experimental Video | CineAmazonia International Festival of Environmental Films, Porto Velho, Brazil
Honorary Award | Sopot Independent Film Festival, Sopot, Poland
Best Experimental Film, nominated | Izmir Short Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Portobello Film Festival | London, UK
Video-Dance Festival of Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires, Argentina
VAD Video and Digital Arts International Festival | Girona, Spain
Mostra do Filme Livre | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Videoformes Video and New Medias in Contemporary Art | Clermont-Ferrand, France
Zemos98 | Seville, Spain
FAM Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul | Florianópolis, Brazil
Mostra Audiovisual Dança em Pauta | São Paulo, Brazil
CineAmazonia International Festival of Environmental Films | Porto Velho, Brazil
Sopot Independent Film Festival | Sopot, Poland
Izmir Short Film Festival | Izmir, Turkey
Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival | Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival | Naoussa, Greece
Videolab Coimbra | Coimbra, Portugal
Festival Images Contre Nature / P'Silo | Marseille, France
The First and the Last Experimental International Film Festival | Sydney, Australia

GALLERY and ART SPACE EXHIBITIONS
Wallpaper | Sala Fittke, Trieste, Italy
Environments | Pátio da Inquisição, Coimbra, Portugal
Red: The Gendered Color in Frames | Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kika Nicolela | Atrium Gallery, Kalamazoo, US
A Arte de Kika Nicolela | 1ª Mostra Sesc Rio de Arte Eletrônica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kika Nicolela: Selected Videos | Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, US
Flux | Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil

SPECIAL SCREENINGS and RETROSPECTIVES
Manipulated Image: the Moving Still | Santa Fe, US
Re:Play Kika Nicolela | Eden343, São Paulo, Brazil
Retrospectiva Kika Nicolela | Espaço Unibanco de Cinema, São Paulo, Brazil
Kika Nicolela Retrospective | Film Klub Póznan, Póznan, Poland

CREDITS
concept and directing>> KIKA NICOLELA and SUZY OKAMOTO
performer and movement research>> LETICIA SEKITO
director of photography>> CHING C. WANG
editing>> KIKA NICOLELA

INFO
Brazil, 2005, 11 minutes
Color, stereo, no dialogues, aspect ratio 4x3