Novas Frequências: À Margem

Novas Frequências is Brazil’s most adventurous music festival. Founded in 2011, the Rio de Janeiro-based event has played host to pioneering experimental artists from across the globe, including King Midas Sound, Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, Elysia Crampton, Julianna Barwick and many more. Last year, the festival – headed by director and curator Chico Dub – celebrated its tenth edition. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival went ahead in an online format, switching live shows for filmed performances and audiovisual works, featuring 100% Brazilian artists for the first time in its history. To mark 10 years of Novas Frequências, the festival reached into its video archive to create À Margem, an “aural and visual narrative” that covers highlights from the event’s first decade. The documentary stitches together performances from 2011 to 2020, assembled in a loose narrative with the logic of a DJ set or polyphonic composition. The film prioritises rhythm and fluidity, a