FRACTAIS TROPICAIS

Tropical fractals

UPCOMING FEATURE-LENGTH FILM

Whispers in the middle of outer space. A small crew of Brazilian archivists on board a biodome spaceship tend to a collection of Earth’s living remnants and their digitized copies. An intelligent system, the Digital Museum of Humankind, becomes a portal into the crew’s diaries and the fractured archive of what has been lost. In this apocalyptic fable told between the vastness of the universe and a planet Earth in ruins, a lone wanderer, perhaps the last man on Earth, roams a more familiar environment. Sounds and images collide replicas and their originals in a fractal dimension like waves crashing on the shoreline, transforming into galaxies.

  • WRITER & DIRECTOR
    Leonardo Pirondi

    PRODUCERS
    Paulo Carneiro (Bam Bam Cinema) & Leonardo Pirondi
    IN ASSOCIATION WITH
    Zazie Ray-Trapido & Ryan Betschart

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
    Nevo Shinaar & Ivo Müller

    CAST
    Ivo Müller
    Valentina Rosset
    André Bohn
    Fernando Siqueira

    IMAGE, SOUND, EDITING
    Leonardo Pirondi

    SOUND MIX
    Craig Smith

    MUSIC
    Leonardo Pirondi
    with additional tracks by Shrine Maiden

    WITH AN EXCERPT FROM
    LE CITTA INVISIBILI by Italo Calvino. Copyright © Estate of Italo Calvino, 2002, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.

    SUPPORTED BY

    • Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA)

    • Galeria Mola Arte Contemporânea

    • Sundance Institute

    • Sundance Ignite Fellowship with Mentoring from filmmaker Ben Rivers

    • San Diego Underground Arts

  • In Leonardo Pirondi’s upcoming debut feature Fractais Tropicais, a small crew of Brazilian archivists aboard a biodome spaceship tend to Earth’s few living remnants in the aftermath of civilization’s collapse. (…) “I think there’s an anxiety that’s very particular to my generation, but also particular to anyone living in this time of wars and rising dictatorships,” he explains. “How can we, through cinema, create this possibility of a reset?" - Filmmaker Magazine, 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2025

  • ** CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION **

    Original Title: Fractais Tropicais
    International Title: Tropical Fractals
    Format: S16mm / DCP (1.66:1)
    Length: TBA
    Territory: Brazil / Portugal
    Year: 2026

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