Shores of the Same Sea

synopsis

The film is based on video diary entries that the authors shared on their journey from Brazil/Peru to Florida. The juxtaposition of images of everyday life on both sides of America, connected by a single sea, is accompanied by text fragments in Czech and Spanish. These refer to Operation Condor, during which the US supported dictatorships in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as to the vision of “colored parachutes” by Brazilian thinker and activist Ailton Krenak, who calls on us to use our creativity at the end of the world to make parachutes with which to delay the fall.

“So maybe we need to invent the parachute. Not to eliminate the fall, but to invent and manufacture millions of colorful, playful, and even pleasant parachutes.”

Source: Krenak, Ailton. Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo / Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2019.

biography

Anežka Horová (b.1996) is a multimedia artist, director, and photographer based in Prague. In addition to commercial work for the fashion and music industries, her own creative work focuses on environmental themes and the aestheticization of the relationship between humans and nature. She participated in the exhibition Poetics of Encryption (Rudolfinum, Prague, 2025). Her films are regularly screened at Ji.hlava IDFF.

Klára Trsková (born 1992) is an audiovisual artist and academic. She works as a curator at the National Film Archive, translates prose from Portuguese, and writes texts for experimental music. She lectures on sub-Saharan African cinema and literature.

Both authors are graduates of the Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. Their joint film But Not for Ever (2023) received a Special Mention in the Czech experimental documentary film category.

film details

director:	Anežka Horová, Klára Trsková
producer:	Klára Trsková

contact

Klára Trsková
klara.trskova@gmail.com