Das Nuvens Pra Baixo
CineCLACS presents a sneak peek of a documentary by Marco Antonio Gonçalves and Eliska Altmann based on the published diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, a resident of a favela in São Paulo. Fifty years following the publication of the diary, the filmmakers engage with her account by documenting conversations with five Rio de Janeiro favela residents. The film will be followed by a conversation with Gonçalves and Altmann, moderated by filmmaker and CLACS professor Peter Lucas. About the film: DAS NUVENS PRA BAIXO (Portuguese with English Subtitles) In 1961, for the first time in Brazil's history, a woman, Carolina Maria de Jesus, living in a slum in São Paulo, writes about her daily life and has her diary published. Fifty years later the directors of the film, inspired by this diary, go to look for characters that somehow dialogue with Carolina. In the slum Complexo da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, five women reveal different experiences and visions of their life in the slum, thus creating continuities and discontinuities with the poetic and critical vision of life expressed by Carolina de Jesus. The voices and visions of these women, Geandra, Iraci, Edilma, Maria da Paz and Vanessa, provide an revigorating and poetically rich image of life in the slums that escapes from the current themes of violence and male dominance, revealing a slum literally lived through a feminine soul. Through the voice of Geandra, an actress, the words written by Carolina gain a new life, in dialogue with the contemporary voices of the other equally strong characters of the women from the Maré complex. Speakers Eliska Altmann is a Brazilian Sociologist and filmmaker, Professor at the Graduate Program of Social Sciences, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the general coordinator of the selection of films and organization of the Film and Anthropology Forum of the Rio International Ethnographic Film Festival. She worked as a researcher for several documentaries such as Edificio Master of Eduardo Coutinho. She is the author of "Brazil imagined in Latin America: critiques of Glauber Rocha's and Walter Salles' films" and Director of the "CineCríticos" - a website dedicated to film criticism in Latin America(www.cinecríticos.com.br). Marco Antonio Gonçalves is a Brazilian Anthropologist and filmmaker, Professor at the Graduate Program of Anthropology and Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Director of Nextimagem (Centre of Experimental Image and Ethnography). He published several books and articles on the subject of Image and Anthropology (such as 'The Imagined Real: Ethnography, Cinema and Surrealism in Jean Rouch; Sensorial Thought in Eiseinsten´s oeuvre: Perspective, Cinema and Anthropology, e.o.) Peter Lucas teaches at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Draper Progam, and Tisch Open Arts. His publications include, Viva Favela: Photojournalism, Visual Inclusion, and Human Rights in Brazil and Action for Disarmament: Ten Things you Can Do. In 2012, Peter Lucas was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his film projects. In 2015 he was invited to the Sundance Film Festival as a Documentary Fellow. He is the creative producer for Hooligan Sparrow, the opening night film at the upcoming Human Rights Watch Film Festival this June. *The conversation will be held in English. This event if free and open to the public. ID is required to enter the building.
at The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square S, NYU
New York, United States
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