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A reading of the city of Recife in its purest state: those who live there and their way of being.

In May 1969 at Tres Irmãos Farm, Caruaru, PE: Lourival Batista and Severino Pinto, two singers by profession, meet for a challenge. This film documents some moments of the Cantoria.

The ritual of the ‘umbu festival’ and the daily activities of the Pankararu indigenous people, dedicated to subsistence farming. Located 100 kms from Paulo Afonso, in the backlands of Pernambuco.

Mapas elementares nº 3 (Elementary Maps No. 3) is a visual poem in which Anna Bella Geiger alludes to the stereotypes and myths attributed to cultures from Latin America through the relationship between the anthropomorphic character of the South Cone’s topography and semantic games, between the formal and the metaphorical, which she establishes with words.

The contrast in the extremely rudimentary form of xelite mining and the use of tungsten, obtained from xelite, in the most complex instruments of nuclear technology.

A mummy movie without a script.

Composições nos Fios - Partituras Mutantes (Compositions in the wires - Mutant Partitions). The plant nests added to the electric wires of the city of Gravatá - (Brazil) are transformed into musical scores.

A selection of photos of the Brazilian actress, singer, songwriter and star, Elvira Pagã.

Short footage about the illegal settlements issues and the struggle of the residents for the regularization of the land's possession.

A documentary assembled upon visual records of cultural, political and economic events from 20th century Brazilian life.

The condition of social exclusion of the hundreds of people who live off the garbage of the Varadouro Municipal of João Pessoa. Figueiredo's speech about images of children disputing garbage with vultures. Music by Villa-Lobos and Piazzola contrasting with the routine of the garbage dump. Statement of a resident who returns to the place after 12 years in Rio, outraged with the requirement of a card for those who pick up the garbage. A sociologist speaks, trying to explain the situation of the garbage dumps based on the workers' struggle for better salaries, flattened "in more than 70%" since 1964.

A documentary short on Museum Emílio Goeldi, located at Belém do Pará, Brazil.

This film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room looking out over the beach and over the roofs of a house in North Africa.

Documentary about the extraction and manufacture of charcoal, in Pompeu, Minas Gerais, focusing on charcoal burners in action, their lives, difficulties, relationships with bosses and the work carried out in a medieval process.

The films of Jorge O Mourão, a collection of autobiographical performance pieces, constitute visceral reactions to the authoritarian regime in Brazil and channel the paranoia and claustrophobia of his generation through the disjunction of sound and image.

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].

A compilation of the Wagner Brothers' first experiments in animation. Seven short films are brought together: "A casa da colina", "Bum!", "Boa-noite", "O halterofilista", "O espaço", "Garoto levado" and "O último bloco".

The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethânia. Conceived to present the shows of the live album that would be released (Doces Bárbaros - Live), the documentary changed of tone when registering the arrest and judgment of Gilberto Gil and of a companion by possession of drugs. Gil was forced to go to a detox clinic, and only went out to participate in the programmed shows.

Computer generated dance and camera moves

A documentary on the trail of locality in Pará, Brazil, from the first jesuit mission to current day's red light district.

Experimental Super-8 film documenting the making of André Luiz Oliveira's "The legend of Ubirajara" (1975). Shot in the Araguaia River Basin in central Brazil.

Through documentary images, old photographs and interviews, the director presents the Santa Tereza cable car, not only as an original means of transport and tourist element, but also as an important part of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Arte Cemiterial (Cemiterial Art): Documentation of an individual exhibition of Paulo Bruscky at the Empetur Gallery, Recife, in 1971, where he launched the Xerografia and the Cemeterial Art with a happening -

The daily lives of children with double disabilities (hearing and visual) and the treatment given to them by teachers are presented in order to relate moments of leisure and directed instruction. The film also addresses the behavior of these children through dramatic games.

The congada was born in Minas Gerais, two centuries ago and is the only popular Afro-Brazilian ritual linked to Catholicism. Every year, on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in Ouro Preto, descendants of the slaves from Angola, Congo and Mozambique gather to celebrate the enthronement of a new king.

The process of production of rapadura in the Brazilian state of Ceará.