Ermínia Maricato is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design in (Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de) São Paulo and a militant fighting for social rights – mostly in housing and urban issues.
During the WUF5 – the world urban forum in Rio de Janeiro – and the urban SOCIAL forum – the parallel to the oficial UNhabitat event – I had a talk with her about her depression on participation. She is angry about too much institutionalism slowering or filtering a real participation. “The people have to come back” she states asking for an independent movement by the people. We are suffering a participatory fever.
A short and superficial overview on the HISTORY OF FILM in Brazil. As you know I made a critical remark to the Golden Bear for Tropa de Elite. I just would like to suggest some other favela-films which are worth to be watched.
Next monday you get a cast on TV Roc, the broadcasting from Rocinha.
Topics of the Brazilian film history and films I am refering to:
I tried to find the youtube links – only the newer ones are in English. When I linked the English title than it should be in English. Cinema Novo
= italian Neo-realism (for example: Roma Città Aperta from Bertolucci)
‘Rio 40 Graus‘ /Rio at 40 degrees, 1955/ and ‘Rio Zona Norte’ /Rio Northern Zone, 1957/ from Nelson Pereira dos Santos,
You may watch the whole film in Portuguese. This here is just the first sequence. The rest you can find on youtube.
Cinco vezes Favela /five times favela 1962/, a collective film
Gláuber Rocha calls it in 1965 the “aesthetic of famine”.
Cinema Marginal
‘Terra em Transe‘ /Gláuber Rocha, Land in Trance 1967/,
DVD out just in portuguese.
‘Macunaíma‘ /1969 by Joaquim Pedro/,
in Portuguese and French
The scene with the swimming pool is from the Parque Lage.
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