FOME / HUNGER
Carlos Vergara,
Brazil/RJ, 1972, 9’33’’, p&b, super-8

Eight jugglers occupy simultaneously a crosswalk causing uproar among the cars desperate to go through the traffic light. The jugglers, little by little, take charge of the street, in pairs they walk in and out of the circuit, until they form a barrier in front of the Green traffic line. The Power off fire and the acrobats ability challenge the drivers screeching horns. How many acrobats are in from of the traffic light right now?

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To the Brazilian cultural, political and economic situation

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1716
Marcellvs L.
Holand, 2008, 7’12’’, color, video

New fragment of the progressing series VideoRhyzome initiated in January 2002.
This work was made as a result of the VideoBrazil/WBK Vrije Academie Award and by supported by WBK Vrije Academie/World Wide Visual Factory (Artist in Residence Program).

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MINHOCÃO / THE WORM
Lia Chaia,
Brazil/SP, 2006, 5’, color, video

The artist regurgitates images of buildings.

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ESTÔMAGO EMBRULHADO / UNSETTLED STOMACH
Paulo Herkenhoff
Brazil, 1975, 8’, p&b, video

The artist chews and swallows newspaper articles about the censorship in Brazil in full dictatorship times.

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LOUCURA E CULTURA / MADNESS AND CULTURE
Antônio Manoel
Brazil/RJ, 1973, 10’, color, video

Fragments of a debate about the borders of madness and culture.

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COSTURA DA MÃO / HAND SEWING
Marcello Nitsche,
Brazil/SP, 1975, 2’, color, super-8

The actual sewing of the hand.

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OCEANO POSSÍVEL / POSSIBLE OCEAN
Sara Ramo
Brazil/ MG, 2002, 3’54’’, color, video

“A woman surrounded by bowls of different sizes tries to recreated the ocean in inside her bathroom. Two wooden spoons allow her to sail while she stays anchored to her surroundings. Surroundings that become a fissure in the contrast of noise and the harmonic. A cloth and a mug helps her body participate in the water flow, that is the mediator of the hollow spaces of the bowls and the immensity of the ocean.” (Ana Maria Ramo)

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WATCHING TIME
Regina Vater
Brazil/PE/RJ, 1979, 12’15’’, color, super-8

Through portraits of faces, the author weaves a reflection about time.

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CAMPO / FIELD
Regina Silveira
Brazil/SP, 1976, 2’23’’, p&b, video

Artist goes through the limits of the frame.

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SAINT EMILION / SAINT EMILION
Ilan Waisberg
Brazil/MG, 2009, 7’, color, video

Men working against the sunset.

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ARTIFÍCIO / ARTFUL
Regina Silveira
Brazil/SP, 1976, 1’22’’, p&b, video

The artist explores the artfulness of image.

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BURACO / HOLE
Gisela Motta e Leandro Lima
Brazil(SP) / Finland(Helsinki), 2007, 11’, color, video

Images of small commercial stores from São Paulo were introduced to the urban landscape of Helsinki, Finland, exploring displacement relations and setting a indirect colorrespondence between both cities.

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ILUSTRATION OF ART I / ILUSTRATION OF ART I
Antônio Dias
Brazil/RJ, 1971, 3’55’’, color, super-8

Formal visions of the healing of a wound. Behind a geometric X, the red of the cut pulses, showing the different forms marked in the gauze until its healed.

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HOW THINGS WORK / HOW THINGS WORK
Roberto Bellini
Brazil/MG, 2002, 5’36’’, color, video

The video explores the visual and sound tensions present in the meeting of unfamiliar universes. Rubber, metal and flesh find themselves involved in friction both luring and repulsive, provoking sounds and textures that speak of a technologic culture, embraced by weird objects and materials.

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LUZ NEGRA / BLACK LIGHT
Eduardo Climachauska e Nuno Ramos
Brazil/ SP, 2001, 11’45’’, color, video

In an open field, big acoustics boxes are buried in deep ditches to the sound of Nelson Cavaquinho songs.

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POEMA / POEM
Paulo Bruscky
Brazil/PE, 1979, 4’, color, super-8

A film where the tip is the film/poem

BURACO NEGRO [SÉRIE B]/ BLACK HOLE [SERIES B]
Cinthia Marcelle e Tiago Mata Machado (Cinemata)
Brazil/MG, 2008, 4’41”, p&b, video

Two drafts of air create abstract figures in lines of dust. A subtle and powerful interpretation on sex and, who knows, love.

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ELEMENTS / ELEMENTS
Iole de Freitas
Brazil/RJ, 1972, 5’30’’, p&b, super-8

The camera moves closer to objects and surfaces lifting the weight, the definition and their tangibility, in a plastic exercise that is decidedly marked by the use of mercury.

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PROTO-TIDE / PROTO-TIDE
Tiago Rocha Pitta
Brazil/ RJ, 2008, 18’ , color, video

Embers in low tides.

X
Ana Maria Maiolino
Brazil/SP, 1976, 3’, color, super-8

The Camera focus on an eye. This eye occupies the whole screen. The fixed Camera represents what’s outside the scene. This is the Other eye that observes from outside. There’s a third and different element: the danger – the cutting scissors.

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DRIVE THRU # 1 / DRIVE THRU # 1
Matheus Rocha Pitta
USA -Brazil/RJ, 2007, 9’50’’, color, video

The video describes a “land apprehension”, put into parcels like drugs. Inspired in the Rio de Janeiro’s Police and filmed in Texas, USA, to video describes a car the “apprehends” the landscape. It’s that of running through the landscape, it’s the landscape that runs through the static car. Produced thanks to the Bolsa Iberê Camargo 2007 (Iberê Camargo Scholarship 2007).

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FILME DE FODA / FUCK FILM
Wagner Morales
Brazil/SP, 2006, 9’21’’, color, video

Inverting the dramatic structure of the pornographic films, this work is made by extensive dialogues and very few actions and bodily contacts. A couple talks in details about what they’ll make during sexual intercourse. This conversation, however, shows itself more obsene than their respective images would be.

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HOMENAGEM A STEINBERG: VARIAÇÕES SOBRE UM TEMA DE STEINBERG: AS MÁSCARAS N° 1 / HOMAGE TO STEINBERG: VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF STEIBERG: THE MASKS #1
Nelson Leirner
Brazil/SP, 1975, 7’, color, super-8

People in everyday activities wearing painted masks over supermarkets’ brown bags, inspired by Steinberg.

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OS PEIXES TAMBÉM MORREM SEM ANZOL / THE FISHES ALSO DIE WITHOUT A HOOK
Ivan Morales Jr.
Brazil/Cuba, 2004, 3’53, color, video

A couple that carries fishes in their mouths.

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DEUS NÃO ESTÁ MORTO / GOD ISN’T DEAD
Chico Liberato
Brazil/BA, 1974, 12’, color, super-8

Crabs thronged in the swamp. Obscure folklore of men dancing a ritual-theater with popular masks of a strange and remote religiosity. Rhythm, colors, and morose excitment.

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O MUNDO BATE DO OUTRO LADO DA MINHA PORTA / THE WORLD KNOKS OUTSIDE MY DOOR
Ticiano Monteiro
Brazil/ CE, 2006, 11’, color, video

An absurd and dream-like situation of a man inhabiting a room situated under the waters of a river.

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