Visions of Paradise

Synopsis

The great voyages to the "New World" were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore, maps from that time render the real and imaginary. The film follows a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. The myth from 1483 Brazil, or Hy-Brazil, is known to exist to the west of Ireland and above the Fortunate Islands. Vision of Paradise is an examination of the capacity of the human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments. Amidst the fine threshold of the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyzes the contemporary ideas of virtual reality and their ambition to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a "New World".

Director Biography

Leoardo Pirondi is a Brazilian-Portuguese filmmaker born in SãoPaulo, Brazil, and curently based in LosAngeles, California. His films explore the multiple derived versions of reality through the use of narative, experimental, and documentary modes.Muchofhisworkexaminesthe sociopoliticalunfoldingsoftheintersectionbetweenimagination, science,myth,andtechnology.