The erratic rhythm of today’s climate, the historical limits of human consciousness and the idea of environmental abstractions are brought to the fore to allow for critical consideration of the relationship between body and planet, subjectivity and climate, modernity and the end of the world as we know it.

‘Until The Last Morning’ (2023) was produced with the support of the Gulbenkian Foundation and filmed in the area around Belém do Pará, in Brazil. With its overwhelmingly ochre tone, the Amazonian sky plays the leading role, prompting questions about modes of mutual obligation between fast-flowing rivers stimulated by the Amazonian vegetation and the human societies that depend on them.

Between glimpses of falling sky, ancient methods to summon the rain and the phenomenon of drought in the rivers of the Amazon Basin, the idea of the ‘opacity of clouds’ will be presented, here, as a consistent plane through which it is possible to approach other modes of relationship with the forces and forms of the planet.

This proposal is a gesture of resistance to the toxic realism established by late liberalism as the only existential outlook available for human and more-than-human beings present on Earth.