New Worlders /
Do Novo Mondo
5 channel video installation / 2022
Short Film - 11 mins / 2025
Prospects and Concepts, Art Rotterdam, 2022
With the support of Mondriaan Fonds
New Worlders is an experimental documentary short film that imagines a world where a wild fungus wipes out rubber plantations—the hidden spine of global capitalism. As it falls, the Amazon breathes, and strange new beings emerge.
New Worlders - trailer
“New Worlders” points at the nickname colonisers gave to Americans, but also to the capacity to build new worlds. A research based speculative near-future sci-fi story about the history and future of rubber, a hidden backbone of the global economy, much at the edge of collapse due to, in part, an unruly fungus. It concerns biopiracy in times of genetic engineering, the scope of synthetic fantasies, global production chains of supply, ecology, scientific innovation and interspecies resistance.
Producer, Writer and Director: Flora Reznik
3d Artist: Martin Menso
Camera: Ariela Bergman and Jesse Bom
Sound recording and sound post producer: Jorrit van Rijn
Editor and image post producer: Flora Reznik
Voice: Anne La Berge
Performers: Yun Lee, Tommy Ventevogel, Elen Braga, Mano Daniel Szollosi and Vera Goetzee
Music: Tomer Baruch / Trumpet: Tal Avraham
With the support of: Mondriaan Fonds