The leaves are coming out.
The indigo bush (Indigofera tinctoria) at the heart of the CICC is growing greener each day. The plant is already synthesising glucose from the artificial light positioned above it and the carbon dioxide released by the speeches, presentations and discussions taking place around it.
The plant responds to the ongoing conversations and grows.
It seems to remember that all resistance to colonial capitalism springs from a somewhat mysterious force that Marx himself simply calls ‘life’.
Pedro Urano is a filmmaker-researcher. Holds an MSc in History of Sciences, Techniques, and Epistemology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (HCTE-UFRJ) and a PhD in Communication and Culture from the School of Communication of the same university, which included a period as visiting researcher at CREAM at the University of Westminster (funded by a PDSE/CAPES scholarship). Urano is the director of the documentaries Royal Road of Cachaça (2008) and HU Enigma (2011), the television series Inhotim Arte Presente (2016), the feature fiction film Subterranea (2021), and the short films Homage to Matta-Clark (2015) and The Bushmen of Rio Bonito de Cima (2023), among others.