The Ghost in Between
two-channel video installation with sound
New York, Cristin Tierney Gallery, 2013
São Paulo, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, 2014

Director: Janaina Tschäpe
Cinematographer: Heloisa Passos, ABC

The film’s title alludes to the playful custom of the inhabitants of the Upper Amazon River to look for ghosts in photographs. According to them, the ghost is in the fringe between the edge of the riverside vegetation and its reflection in the river. For the indigenous people who make up the basis of the local population, the invisible world is as real as the visible one, and this informs the rich and hybrid Amazonian mythology.