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SuperBarroco
SuperBarroco
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SUPERBARROCO

Directed by Renata Pinheiro
Brazil, 2008
Short, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

The ornamentation in the ruin, the dark in the clear, the silence in the voice, the immobillity in the action.

Synopsis

The ornamentation in the ruin, the dark in the clear, the silence in the voice, the immobillity in the action.

Our take

Evoking a ghostly world of illusions in miniature, the ruins of a house transform into the psychic space of a lonely man. Shot on 35mm with flickering projections, SuperBarrocco is the evocative short of Brazilian artist-filmmaker Renata Pinheiro, who art directed Lucrecia Martel’s Zama!