
Flowers give birth to dreams. A rock dreams of a man. Trees hold us as we grieve. And a community establishes new roots. These four films take us far beyond the individualistic human-centred view of the world.
With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.
Weaving documentary and radical theatre techniques, Brazilian artist and filmmaker Jonathas de Andrade brings together a cast of 100 people to reclaim a public square. Inspired by the techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, this temporary community, made up of vulnerable and unhoused people in the city of Recife, Brazil, improvises a series of actions that transform both the space, the viewer and the community itself. From a kitchen to a dressing room, a parliament to a stage, the public square once again becomes a site of community, ideas and resistance.
- Year2023
- Runtime25 minutes
- LanguagePortuguese
- CountryBrazil, Italy
- PremiereWorld premiere
- DirectorJonathas de Andrade
- ProducerLeonardo Bigazzi
- CinematographerGustavo Pessoa
- EditorFabio da Costa, Gustavo Campos
Flowers give birth to dreams. A rock dreams of a man. Trees hold us as we grieve. And a community establishes new roots. These four films take us far beyond the individualistic human-centred view of the world.
With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.
Weaving documentary and radical theatre techniques, Brazilian artist and filmmaker Jonathas de Andrade brings together a cast of 100 people to reclaim a public square. Inspired by the techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, this temporary community, made up of vulnerable and unhoused people in the city of Recife, Brazil, improvises a series of actions that transform both the space, the viewer and the community itself. From a kitchen to a dressing room, a parliament to a stage, the public square once again becomes a site of community, ideas and resistance.
- Year2023
- Runtime25 minutes
- LanguagePortuguese
- CountryBrazil, Italy
- PremiereWorld premiere
- DirectorJonathas de Andrade
- ProducerLeonardo Bigazzi
- CinematographerGustavo Pessoa
- EditorFabio da Costa, Gustavo Campos