Geraldo de Barros – Sobras em Obras
Switzerland / Brazil, October 1999
FILM,
Documentary,
74 min.
- directed by
- Michel Favre
- Written by
- Michel Favre
- Status
- In distribution
Sobras is the Portuguese word for the cloth cuttings that seamstresses usually discard. It is also the title of the last collection of photographs by Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998), one of Brazil's pioneers of experimental photography and also one of the most important artists in the constructivist movement. This film illustrates the artist's creative approach by means of a stimulating dialogue between the past and the present, comparing the trajectories of a man and of his country. The key idea in this film is the act of presentation, “because a negative that has been found scratched and dusty, if it produces a good photographic result, belongs to the person who uses it and no longer to the person who first exposed the film”. The film adopts the same approach to the presentation of the artist so that it too becomes the vestige, “a remnant” of an existing story.
credits
- World Premiere
- October 1999
- Original Version
- Portuguese (french subtitles), colour und s/w, 35mm, 74 min.
- Production
- Tradam SA, Tatu Filmes Cláudio Kahns
- Producer
- directed by
- Michel Favre
- Written by
- Michel Favre
- Cinematography
- Michel Favre
- Editing
- Vincent Pluss
- Music
- Peter Scherer
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Tradam SA
Awards
(a selection)
- International Film Festival of Fine Arts, 3° Prix meilleur film d'art 2000 (Winner)
- Sao Paulo, It's All True International Documentary, Audience Award 2000 (Winner)
- Genève, République et canton de Genève, Prime à la qualité 2000 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
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Nyon, Visions du Réel
01.05.2000 - 07.05.2000 -
Sao Paulo, Associação Brasileira Mostra Internacional de Cinema ABMIC
15.10.1999 - 28.10.1999