Otavio silences all the words and has one special way of capturing the feminine beauty. The film is a disturbing diagnosis of a city and its population sick from their writing, letters and graphics. We are being drowned and we are drowning ourselves in our writing, in our graphics, in our representations. We suffer profoundly from this evil. And the film says: "This is how we are living today"; it doesn't explain, it doesn't analyse - it leaves us alone with our disease. It's a disease that comes from afar, that keeps on eating at us, bit by bit.
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| Marcelo Masagão |
| São Paulo, 1958. He wrote, directed and edited the films Nós que aquí estamos por vós esperamos (1998), Nem gravata, nem honra (2001) and 1,99-Um supermercado que vende palavras (2003). He is the director of the Festival do Minuto, dedicated to short films, and has wide experience in the management of community television and radio networks, a subject on which he has co-written two books. Otávio e as letras was selected for Films in Progress 11. |
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