A singular anthropological essay film that observes the various nets we find across different contexts in Bahia (from fishing nets to delicate nets of lace), and the emotions and sensations associated with them. It continues to ponder how these nets materialize principles of connection, of filtering and of patterning. As the scope widens to the nets of longitude and latitude that encircle the globe, and of virtual networks like Grindr, Van de Port wonders aloud how connection, filtering and patterning play themselves out in his own life – as a filmmaker, as an anthropologist, as a-gay-man-in-love.

Mattijs van de Port is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist. He did fieldwork in Serbia, the Netherlands and since 2001 in Brazil. He is the author of three monographs and made several films, including Saborear Frutas Brasileiras (2013), the essay films The Possibility of Spirits (2016) and Knots and Holes (2018).

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Location: Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall, Room 108