João Vieira Torres
Nascimento : , Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Director
Mal di mare is a gasp of air, a shout sung in waves moving through a body nauseated by the confrontation with the violence of the ever swirling world. This improvised singing tries to break the invisible glass that separates the gaze and the realities of those who can observe from afar and those who are observed, but who are mostly prevented from returning such gaze. Who/what’s missing in the room? The film was shot during the 2019 Venice Biennale and built around a performing action carried out by the filmmaker himself in the exhibition space.
Director
Everything starts in a dream in which I told my mother that I was going to look for the hundreds of children that my grandmother helped coming into life. She was a midwife and a healer for over forty years in the deep desertic Sertão of Northeast Brazil. Her name was Aurora. I did not get to know her. From one encounter to another, with the alive and the dead, the film follows the traces of Aurora’s ghost and confronting the structural violence, gender and racial wise, present in Brazil’s historical formation.
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Presents seven reminiscences of early childhood, read in seven different voices, as the camera presses close against the faded dye and exaggerated grain of family photographs from the early 1980s. The film encourages the audience to interrogate assumptions about gender, memory, performance, and death.
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O casal José Mauro e Hilda, depois de 35 anos, estão em vias de enfrentar uma mudança muito grande: irão trocar de residência. Algo muito expressivo e para duas pessoas de idade, que pouco saem do lar. José está nervoso e Hilda não sabe o que fazer com os objetos da casa que nunca foi realmente dela.
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I was invited to film a ritual. One that can be shown to foreigners, to “dried-heads” like me. A child in the village watches Disney’s Fantasia on TV. He is interrupted. What the child lives when he dances? What am I able to see from what is shown to me?
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Is the asymmetry of wants the true form of encounter between two people? In this film two men and the sea will maybe have something to say.
Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classicism and homoeroticism.
Documentário experimental, poema visual acerca do reencontro com uma cidade que não se vê, mas está presente através dos seus sons e das impressões térmicas do corpo cartografado de um dos seus habitantes.
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Documentário experimental, poema visual acerca do reencontro com uma cidade que não se vê, mas está presente através dos seus sons e das impressões térmicas do corpo cartografado de um dos seus habitantes.
Additional Editing
O filme explora a habilidade do humano de se adaptar perante a catástrofe enquanto passagens de literatura seminal implicam em um corpo social transitório
Se uma virgem pôde carregar uma criança em seu ventre através de um milagre, por que um homem não poderia fazê-lo também?
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Se uma virgem pôde carregar uma criança em seu ventre através de um milagre, por que um homem não poderia fazê-lo também?
