Carlos Adriano
2021
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
Carlos Adriano
Alberto Santos Dumont, Charles Rolls
The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932). The work approaches historic and artistic aspects from the beginning of Cinema (pre cinema, variety film) and a cinema that appropriates archive material (found footage, recycled films), through interviews, documents, visual metaphors and the articulation of a poetic essay.
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
Sem Título #6: O Inquietanto
Carlos Adriano
An invitation to the abyss joined by the company of Antonin Artaud and Robert Walser, familiar and unknown - unheimlich. The mystery of memory and love beyond the soul; unexpected and strange agony; what formerly returns. Poetic lapses and bonds from a movie poem of found footage and a documentary essay, between an experimental Japanese movie (1926) and a North American industrial movie (2010).
Sem Título #6: O Inquietanto
Sem Titulo #4: Apesar dos Pesares, na Chuva há de Cantares
Carlos Adriano
It rains; but still, it sings. Under the symbolic motto of the meteorological metaphor, a poetic constellation of edited "found footage" with excerpts of 99 films and 8 versions of a song. From the series "Notes for a Self-Biopic (in Regress)".
Untitled #4: In Spite of Ruin, Sing in the Rain
o que há em ti
Carlos Adriano
On March 16, 2020, in Brasília, an anonymous and unknown Haitian challenged the head of the nation: “Bolsonaro, it’s over. You are not president anymore.” This film poem counterpoints this situation with two military operations of Minustah (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), commanded by Brazil, on july 6, 2005, and december 22, 2006, in Cité Soleil.
Brazil is thee Haiti is (t)here
Sem Titulo #2: La Mer Larme
Carlos Adriano
The sea taken by footages from XIX century (produced in 1891, 1895 ,1897 and 1900, in Brazil, United States, France and England) and listened from a song(in French, English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian). From the series “notes for a Self Biopic (in Regress)”.
Sem Titulo #2: La Mer Larme
Sem Título #5: A Rotina Terá Seu Enquanto
Carlos Adriano
A double love tribute: to the final film by Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) ‘An Autumn Afternoon’ or ‘Sanma no Aji’ (1962) and ‘A Rising Sun That Painted My Horizon' (2018). An archival re-appropriation cine-poem. A found footage haiku.
Untitled #5: A Tune of Nones at Noon
