(Memory)
(35 mm, 14 min, color, 1990)
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In Brazil, film copies can be shown for 5
years then they are destroyed. A factory in São Paulo uses copies
of films as raw material to make brooms. 25 years after retiring from public
life, Jânio Quadros is elected mayor of São Paulo. 1989 is
a decisive year for Brazil: the first general elections in 3 decades. Some
candidates are old familiar faces. But nobody remembers anymore what happened
last time.
PHOTO by Christian Lesage |
Director: Roberto Henkin
Executive
Producer: Luciana Tomasi
Written
by: Roberto Henkin and Jorge Furtado
Cinematographer:
Christian
Lesage
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Leo
Henkin
Production
Coordinator: Nora Goulart
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
João
Batista Diemer (male narration)
Catherine Lestre
de Rey (female narration)
Maria Verbena
de Souza (testimony)
Prizes
18th
Gramado Film Festival, 1990:
Best Screenplay.
23th
Brasília Film Festival, 1990:
Best Short
Film (Official Jury and Popular Jury), Best Editing.
13th
Guarnicê of Cine-Video, São Luis, 1990:
Official Jury
Award, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Honor Mention according to the Federation
of Cineclubs, Honor Mention accordding the Catholic Jury.
19th
Iberoamerican Film Festival, Huesca, Spain, 1991:
Best Film (Official
Jury and accordng to the Federation of Cineclubs)
Reviews
"The absolute highlight (...) is 'Memory', directed by Roberto Henkin.
(...) Made shortly before Fernando Collor de Mello taking office as president,
the documentary focuses on a blind woman who loves films and, paradoxically,
works in a factory that uses old films as raw material to make brooms.
At the same time, the film reflects on Jânio Quadros’ use of the
broom as a symbol in relation to Collor’s discourse as the "hunter of the
corrupt". It is the most incisive testimony in Brazilian cinema about the
government that tried to destroy it."
(Hugo Sukman,
O Globo, 26/08/99)
Available versions
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| 35mm in portuguese |
35mm with english subtitles |
16mm in portuguese |
DVD with multlingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese ("Historias do Pais") |
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