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Mood Keep
by Alice Dos Reis
2018, 13′
Presented at VISIO. European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video (2018)
Courtesy the artist
Axolotls are water salamanders with regenerative abilities which refuse to metamorphose into maturity. In Mood Keep, these cute creatures communicate via wi-fi waves and watch anime telepathically. Born almost blind and only capable of discerning shadows of light, the permanent tungsten pink brightness in their tanks is disturbing to their communication abilities. In the film axolotls decide collectively to develop eyelids, choosing to shut their eyes indefinitely as a way to reclaim agency of their bodies and encourage empathic communication with others.
Alice dos Reis is an artist based in Amsterdam. In June 2018, she completed a Master in Fine at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam as a grantee of the Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for Arts Masters and Research. Her diverse work, mainly in film and text, combines research and fiction to comment on the intersection between digital platform image production and contemporary socio-politics. Dos Reis is deeply interested in the relations between video making, cinema and contemporary society in a geopolitical, ecological and anthropological sense. Her work has been shown in several institutions and galleries across Europe, namely MAAT Museum (Lisbon), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam) and Spektrum – Art, Technology Community (Berlin).