In 2020, a book was found in a well. This well, as many other of life’s cavities, was contaminated by superficial practices of intensive monoculture. Its water, having turned unsanitary, had then dried up for quite a long time. It was inside this hole, then, dried up yet viscerally imprinted by the memory of water, that a translation of “Lesbian peoples: material for a dictionary”, written in 1976 by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig 1 was found.

"Spillovers" are lovers, or perhaps transitional states of identity, summoning the body and eroticism to deal with ecological violence and eventually produce water. 

This film was built from the process of creating a collective performance presented in 2023 at the invitation of Batalha Centro de Cinema in Porto.

Directed by Ritó Natálio

Cinematography, Editing, Co-direction by Aline Belfort

Additional images capture by Patricia Black

Music and voice by Odete

Text by Ritó Natálio

With Alina Ruiz Folini, Eríc Santos, Josefa Pereira, Lui L'Abbate, Teresa Ves Liberta

Movie poster by Maura Grimaldi

Translation by Miguel Cardoso

Co-production: Batalha Film Centre, Parasita Association

Creative support: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 

Support for previous versions of the project: Pass the Mic! Funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, CREA 616850/2020 (2021), Create to Impact Network / Creative Europe of the European Union and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia (2020)

Executive production and administration: Associação Parasita / Sofia Lopes, Lysandra Domingues

Production assistance: Laila Algaves Nuñez