(This is not your life)
(35 mm, 16 min, color, 1991)
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Noeli is one meter and fifty eight cm tall
and weighs fifty four kilos. Noeli is a housewife and has two children.
She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.
PHOTO
by Alex Sernambi: |
Director: Jorge Furtado
Executive
Producer: Nora Goulart and Ana Luiza Azevedo
Written
by: Jorge Furtado
Cinematographer:
Alex
Sernambi
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Leo
Henkin
Production
Coordinator: Dainara Soares
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Noeli Cavalheiro
(testimony)
José
Mayer (narration)
Prizes
19th
Gramado Film Festival, 1991:
Best Film (Critic's
Prize), Best Direction, Best Regional Film, Best Direction of Regional
Film, Best Edition of Regional Film.
4th
International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1992:
Best Film.
1st
Latinoamerican Film Festival, Caracas, Venezuela, 1993:
Best Short
Film.
Reviews
"This is a different Brazil, the one investigated by the two Brazilian
shorts produced for the TV series SOUTH of UK's Channel Four. No beaches,
no carnival, no shantytowns. No tropical country (...) In THIS IS NOT YOUR
LIFE, Jorge Furtado celebrates ordinary life, anonymity, the voices of
street corners, as he focuses his film on the testimony of Noeli Cavalheiro,
a housewife from the south of Brazil, chosen at random. It is a talented,
high-tech re-reading of Neo-realism."
(Amir Labaki,
FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO, 29/08/91)
"THIS IS NOT YOUR LIFE is born out of the realization, by Jorge Furtado,
that outside the strictly personal scope, most people do not exist, except
in the cold shape of figures and generalizing formulas. (...) The first
images show fragments of human bodies, while the sound track emits a text
with the sentence 'your anonymity is your security', addressed, naturally,
to the spectator."
(Fernando Marques,
CORREIO BRAZILIENSE, 17/09/91)
"In his second solo work (...), Jorge Furtado shows the same talent and
creativity of his previous works. Using a fragmented narrative that never
bores the audience, he removes from anonymity somebody chosen at random.
A face in the crowd of anonymous beings that walk the streets and avenues
of big cities, and will never have their 15 minutes of glory. The person
chosen, however, proves to have a life that is has a wealth of human aspects,
a way of speaking and expressing herself without lies or hypocrisy."
(Tuio Becker,
ZERO HORA, 27/03/92)
Available versions
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| 35mm in portuguese |
35mm with english narration |
16mm in portuguese |
DVD w/multlingual subtitles and audio ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese ("Historias Reais") |
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