The Brazilian screening
Author: redactie redactie
A fascinating series of shorts on brazilian counter culture. Graziela Kunsch her lifelong dream of living and working in a house with friends has evolved into a national meeting place creating a nation wide network of collectives and artitist.
From these may collectives and artists she selected 18 shorts ranging from humourus protests, interventions and expressions of art to the more chilling documentaries.
A few exapmles include the young artist Geraldo Marcolini who spend a night pasting his own home made streetsign with his name over the official the official signs of a straat dedicated to a famous artist thereby claiming his own street.
One artist spend a night spraypainting cockroaches gold and selling them as he wished to make one of the most reviled creatures on earth into stars.
Two of the more disturbing shorts were “It didn’t start in seattle it won’t end in Quebec” and “Eviction”. The first is an firsthand insight into the degenaration of a peacefull anti FTAA protest in São Paulo into a battle with the Barzillian riot police and the second the tale of how 7000 homeless daylaborers and their families were evicted from a property which has stood vacant for years.
All in all some very interesting material on the social problems of a nation were I as a citizen of the Netherlands normally hear nothing about.
Dennis Heldens