(Look closely)
(16 mm, 9 min, color, 1994)
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LOOK CLOSELY is a film and it is also an object,
a zoetrope, a kind of predecessor of films. In the first part of the film
(and on the inside of the object), the focus of attentions is the muscle
man, the images are repeated to exhaustion, and the text is by João
Cabral de Mello Neto. In the second part of the film (and on the outside
of the object) the focus of attention is a wonderful and ridiculous kaleidoscope
of the city's bargains, the images are pure diversity, and the text is
by Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
PHOTO by Alex Sernambi |
Director: Jorge Furtado
Executive
Producer: Nora Goulart
Written
by: Jorge Furtado
Cinematographer:
Alex
Sernambi
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Leo
Henkin
Production
Coordinator: Moa Batsow
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Dainara Toffoli
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Carlos Cunha
(inside narration)
Lisa Becker
e Roberto Birindelli (outside narration)
Reviews
"In its structure,
the device configures the classic articulation of alienated work with fetishism,
opposing the world of production to the world of merchandise-images. (...)
Everything moves to the sound of factory machinery, whose cadence is imposed
with a satirical intention: sound and image enumerate, juxtapose and, through
repetition, end up creating the effect of a total system, outlining an
anatomy of the social as a comedy of mechanization and automatism. (...)
This way of introducing contradiction is reminds one of the effect created
by the idea of freedom at the end of Island of Flowers. In that case and
here the game is undone when something that has no place in the logic of
the series is introduced. (...) If there is allegory in Furtado's device
it is to evoke a world that advances 'technically' but is unable to unite
the homo ludens with the homo faber."
(Ismail Xavier)
Available versions
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| 16mm in portuguese |
DVD with multilingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese |
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