Somewhere Nowhere

A short film about the city of Teresina, Brazil, Somewhere Nowhere explores questions of place and belonging through five different vignettes. The first is an animation of how the filmmakers imagine Teresina's rapid urbanization. The second vignette deconstructs the 'city' in response to a local discourse questioning Teresina's ability to measure up to such a notion. The third vignette introduces Teresina's landscape by attending to the city's palpable atmosphere, while the fourth explores the role of an imagined better outside world in local attempts at placemaking. The final vignette looks at a community of cultural producers in Teresina. Together, these vignettes illustrate a number of pressing questions around place and belonging that have arisen in a South American city undergoing rapid socioeconomic and sociocultural transformation.