Film
Miramar + Of Murals & Mosaics
- 4:30PM
Júlio Bressane's loose take on Oswald de Andrade’s 1924 bildungsroman, Sentimental Memories of João Miramar, screens with a video collage on mid-century muralist Paulo Werneck.
Director Vivian Ostrovesky will introduce the screening.
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Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
Júlio Bressane, 82min, Digital
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Director Júlio Bressane—a key figure in the radical Cinema Marginal movement during the late ’60s—offers a loose take on modernist writer Oswald de Andrade’s 1924 bildungsroman, Sentimental Memories of João Miramar. It tells the story of a young man in Rio de Janeiro who takes up a 16mm camera after his parents die, determined to film anything that moves in an impossible quest to capture the world as it is. While the young cinephile sifts through the influences of Eisenstein, Jean Cocteau, and Hollywood alongside classics of Brazilian and Portuguese literature, Bressane crafts a boundary-pushing, free-flowing film that’s wholly unique. US premiere!
Vivian Ostrovsky, 16min, Digital
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
In Of Murals & Mosaics, director Vivian Ostrovsky invites us to explore the Modernist architecture of the 50s and 60s with an inventive video collage about groundbreaking muralist Paulo Werneck’s incredible mosaics.
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