Laboratório Zener (Zener Laboratory)

Zener Laboratory

Duration: 9 min. Video. UHD. Colour and black and white. Sound: Stereo. Funchal, 2026 (Portugal). Direction, screenplay, photography and production: Pau Pascual Galbis. Actresses: Arantza Gaztañaga Garabieta and Mariana Matilde de Freitas Betancourt. Music: CMIND – Lost Generation (Remix of Abraxas No Evolution). Original song by CMIND (Cmix & Howard Mind), remixed for Abraxas. Originally released on Golden Soul Records. Sound Post Production: Estudio 21. Narration: Naídea Nunes Nunes. Production Assistant: Amanda Isabella Vargas González. Direct Sound: Aniol Pascual Chaki. Assistant Photographer: Unai Pascual Chaki. With the support of the Research Institute in Design, Media and Culture ID+, Portugal, and the University of Madeira's Council for Culture. In collaboration with the Electricity Museum – Casa da Luz (EEM – Electrical Company of Madeira), the Higher School of Health and the Departments of Chemistry and Arts and Design at the University of Madeira.

Professor Zener of the State Department is developing an artificial substance in a laboratory, based on the law of equivalent exchange, consisting of sulphur, mercury and salt. It is carrying out an anthropological revolution with the aim of creating a pure, uncontaminated feminine homunculus, free from disease. However, it will not turn out as she wants. Alchemy and protein science are part of his research. It is hard to imagine how the queen of human possibilities and positions in the realm of the possible is in opposition to the real. It is a constant enquiry, with the hope of achieving a distinct society.