Flowers
Flores
An Amazon ethnocide is justified by war in Ukraine. All streamed on-line under the gaze of the filmmaker, he leaves the screen and meets his 3-year-old son who marvels at the flowers in the garden.
Navigating the barrage of online news inundating our screens each day, filmmaker Josรฉ Cardoso explores a world oversaturated with digital noise, transforming the chaos of online media into a personal reflection on collective responsibility. Through dreamlike juxtapositions, Cardoso links an Amazonian community under threat from Brazil’s far-right leadership to the distant echoes of war in Ukraine. Amidst a global crisis, Josรฉ internalises Buddhist monk Thรญch Nhแบฅt Hแบกnh’s teachings on compassion, seeing these roots of innocence in his three-year-old son, who marvels at frogs and flowers in their garden. Oscillating between discordant synthesisers and pensive silences, Flowers/Flores stages a complex inquiry into humanity’s desensitisation to digital media, global political violence, and environmental destruction, insisting on solidarity to preserve our world for the future generations that will inherit it.
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