Brazilian artist Luiz Roque’s production consists largely of short duration open-ended cinematic narratives, in which he places mysterious characters (either gender-fluid dancers, famous drag queens, animals, landmark modernist buildings or historical artworks) creating dreamlike and sci-fi atmospheres. Roque’s sets unfold through suspended time and are at once prehistoric and dystopic, familiar and odd. To compose his visually engaging and well-chiseled allegories, he relies on different film formats and cinematography techniques (HD, super-8,16mm, etc), as well as original soundtracks to address pressing issues such as queer-bioethics, the legacy and the failure of modernism, the cultural overstimulation of the 21st century, and the problematics of automation and artificial intelligence. His films may be fantastical, but they fall far from an escapist fantasy.