Fiction · 2013

Prism

Original title: Prisma

A meeting between two friends and an unknown attraction. The borderline between the real and the imagined, the inside and the outside, friendship and love, one body and another. Prism is the story of a connection between surfaces that, once in touch, wakes the shattered power of feelings.

Matheus Marco Moraes’s first film, Prism was born at film school: the screenplay won a university contest and was shot on MiniDV with the school’s equipment. Without any funding, the short was only finished in 2013 — produced and edited by Rudolfo Auffinger, long before Rachadura existed.

On screen, the film is split into three side-by-side frames, like the faces of a prism: the same encounter seen from different angles and times.

Prisma (2013): três quadros da caminhada dos amigos pelo parque

Prisma (2013): a tela dividida em três quadros, com os dois amigos à beira do lago

Prisma (2013): três quadros com os amigos deitados na grama

Prisma (2013): três quadros com um rosto voltado para o céu

Festivals

26th Polari Film Festival — Austin, Texas (USA), October 2013 · world premiere
4th CLOSE – National Sexual Diversity Film Festival — Porto Alegre, Brazil, December 2013
Rio Gay Film Festival — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2014 · three screenings
Cinema Ao Bafo screening, 1st Inventing Genders Seminar — Joinville, Brazil, 2015

More than a decade later, Prism remains a record of where we come from: queer cinema made with whatever was at hand. Watch the full film on this page.

Prisma (2013): vista do lago cercado de mata