This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Adrift Potentials is a film started by a Brazilian artist while in exile in Los Angeles. Isolated shots and previously assembled scenes reveal an intention to create a mysterious film comprised of disembodied interviews, empty rooms, radio recordings, soccer games, and sudden apparitions of the filmmaker that slowly ruminates on Brazil's colonial past, North American Imperialism and the military dictatorship of the time. Be aware that the film’s final version never came to exist.

Leonardo Pirondi is a filmmaker and artist born in São Paulo, Brazil. His films often inhabit realities similar to ours while creating friction between documentary and fictional structures; his filmmaking practice emerges from the fabulation of sociopolitical resonances within culture, myth, history, technology, and image-making. His films have been exhibited in various festivals, including Toronto, Rotterdam, New York, Viennale, BFI London and many others. He holds a degree in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts and is a Sundance Institute Fellow.

Available for online screening from 11 December