FILM

A silent film shot on grainy, black and white 16mm exploring a Spiritist community in Palmelo, Brazil, a city of 2000 inhabitants, half of whom are psychic mediums in contact with another world. Together they still practice what is known as ‘the magnetic chain’, the joining of hands, to treat different kinds of illnesses, including mental ones. As a starting point Guimarães and Akhøj used a map, which a particularly sensitive spiritist drew, charting twenty astral cities hovering above the whole of the Brazilian territory.