In 1928, the American automaker Ford founded a town company in the Amazon rain forest, in the Brazilian state of Pará, on the east banks of the Tapajós river. The investment on this large-scale endeavour (in addition to the factory, were also built houses, schools, hospitals, and over 70 km of roads, etc.) was justified as the company relied on the rubber trees in the Amazon, mainly used for producing tires and other car parts, which was then under British monopoly. Due to a number of reasons, both human and nature derived, the project failed, and the city was abandoned in 1945. The remains of Henry Ford's industrial utopia now turned dystopia serve as a pretext for Susana de Sousa Dias to tackle such difficult topics as the changes in the landscape (natural, human, social, economic, political), the volatility of the historic processes and how memory works. “Fordlândia Malaise” maps this unique territory using archive photos and footage, but also present-day images of buildings and streets, and the statements of several former inhabitants. In a creative way, Susana de Sousa Dias carries on the work she started in “Still Life” (2005) and that was followed by “48” (2009) and “Obscure Light” (2017), through which she brings forward a meditation upon the ambiguity and subjectivity of institutional archives, the retrieval and promotion of memory and post-memory as a much needed alternative narrative in order to expose historical invisibility and taking a critical look at the past, no matter how uncomfortable and sickening it might be. (PC)