«I’m Still Here» is a film about remarkable resilience and the quiet power of attentive care that helps to restore justice.
During the years of military dictatorship in Brazil, Eunice Paiva faces the disappearance of her husband and finds herself in a new reality, where loss is accompanied by silence and the absence of answers. Yet through calm determination and persistence, she manages to affirm the truth of this story: first within her family, and later on a national scale.
The pronoun on the film poster does not disappear along with the rest of the text, just as the main character did not allow the most important thing in her life to disappear.
Still Here is a documentation practices lab, offering material and analogue tools to preserve human presence and explore memory.
Unlike the film poster, the posters for the lab are more restrained. Eunice Paiva’s archive has already been formed and filled, while the lab participants are only at the beginning of their journey.
Inspired by Eunice, the laboratory approaches engagement with reality not as a bureaucratic act, but as a quiet, methodical practice of resistance to disappearance.
In a rapidly shifting digital world, where the boundaries between reality and its representations become increasingly fragile, Still Here turns to material ways of holding memory. The laboratory creates a space where participants can assemble a personal physical archive, experiment with different ways of documentation, and discover practices that can become part of their everyday lives.
Attentiveness, materiality, and the acknowledgment of absence form the project’s core values. It’s a space where memory is sustained, feelings are not suppressed, and what has disappeared remains visible.
The logo references punch-hole marks, reflecting the idea of making absence visible.
The lettering becomes visible only through the layering of textures or by outlining its contours.
The shape is formed from the outlines of scattered sheets of paper.
All materials are intended to be used during the lab. The act of using them becomes a documentation practice — objects retain the participants’ touches and traces. For this reason, each item is deliberately designed to be light and minimal, so that these marks remain visible.
Postcards designed for written documentation practices.
The outcome of the laboratory is a personal physical archive that can continue to grow even after the project ends.
An example of an archive collected by a participant of the lab.
Pouch for storing artifacts or stationery, complementing the archive.
Still Here. Presence is proof.
