In Rio de Janeiro, in the city's north side, a group of friends turn to making comedy and self-mutilation videos as a necessary escape from the harsh reality of their everyday lives and uncertain futures. From 2006 to 2021, fifteen years of images narrate the (mis)directions of a profoundly unfair city/country as much as the formation of a filmmaker's gaze. Amidst the pandemic and the dismantling of the public support structure for audiovisual production, sprouts a jewel of s... (Full plot summary below)
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In Rio de Janeiro, in the city's north side, a group of friends turn to making comedy and self-mutilation videos as a necessary escape from the harsh reality of their everyday lives and uncertain futures. From 2006 to 2021, fifteen years of images narrate the (mis)directions of a profoundly unfair city/country as much as the formation of a filmmaker's gaze. Amidst the pandemic and the dismantling of the public support structure for audiovisual production, sprouts a jewel of sheer energy and feeling: cinema breathes - re-signifying images, condensing and freezing time, rearranging past and present.
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