1000 Brazils of Truth

Filmmakers Sheena Rossiter and Sandro Silva perform a spoken word song that’s dedicated to São Paulo, a megacity full of paradoxes. Through archive footage they filmed between 2011 and 2017, Sheena and Sandro show the highs and lows of a country that goes from being an emerging market, economic powerhouse, to one on the brink of collapse. By the time the filmmakers decide to leave Brazil in 2017, it is a country in the midst of a seemingly never-ending political corruption scandal and the worst economic recession in over eight decades. But, despite the shortcomings, Sheena and Sandro still miss this mega city.

Film Maker
Rossiter, Sheena
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Length
3
Language
and English with English subtitles for Portugese sections, Brazilian, Portugese
Category
Architecture, Black, Community, Culture, Essay, Ethnography
Genre
experimental, Installation

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