A-MAR

A Film by

Rita Rosa Monteiro
Luke Walker

A-MAR is a fluid and oscillating split screen audiovisual project about the sea that juxtaposes, plays with, and meditates on recordings gathered from the coasts of Sintra, Portugal, and Dungeness, England.

Composed of interchangeable clips captured on Super 8, tape, and digital field recorders, which are orchestrated live on Resolume and Ableton, A-MAR is a response to migration, belonging, and memory of place through the performance of fragmentary, subjective and shifting loops.



Through this process it searches for a connection to home in interconnected bodies of water and reflects on the natural environment and our relationship with it.



















A-MAR
was selected for commission as part of the FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video 2025. It will be exhibited from the 6th of June until the 1st of October at the museum in Parikia on the Greek Island of Paros and online.

fluxusmuseum.org



Rita Rosa Monteiro and Luke Walker are multimedia artists and filmmakers based in London who grew up next to the waters of the Atlantic and the Thames, in Lisbon and London, respectively.

ritarosamonteiro.com 

lukeewalker.com
 



Sintra, Portugal
Dungeness, England
A-MAR

Ser complexo e inebriante
Cintilante e profundo
No teu canto dançante.

Meu ferro líquido, anseia
Tua ondulação salgada.
O teu som gritante, cala
Os meu anseios.

E ficamos só nós,
Num amor, onde flutuo e me afogo.

Trago-te comigo, sinto-te
Nas lágrimas salgadas que choram por ti.



A-MAR showing at the opening of the FluxusMuseum’s exhibition for the Prize for Experimental Video 2025