Directors Lounge Screening
Gabraz Sanna
Interlude and Other Dreams
Monday, 26 February 2018
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Gabraz Sanna, joins us from Brazil for his film
program Interlude and Other Dreams" at Z-Bar.
The experimental film director creates calm
contemplative images that are both seductive and
involving the viewer. Gabraz is closely connected
with the underground music scene of Rio de
Janeiro, and some of his recent films have been
portraits of musicians, while at the same time
being meditations on their work. The main film in
this program "Interlude" follows the creative
couple Van Demichelis and Jiulian Gonçalves, both
electronic musician, on their artistic process,
during a residency. Gabraz and producer Anne
Santos stay for several weeks, filming and
editing. How do you present a creative process,
one could ask? The filmmaker creates images of
the relation of the couple, and their personal
interaction with only few words about concepts
and (gender) politics. It seems Gabraz often
opens his pictures by very slow and intense
reflections oh his subject. With long arresting
shots he takes the viewer into a world of its
own, and only when he already established a deep
connection between viewer and story, he brings in
contrasting and dialectic views.
This is true also to "Sonho de Sara." A car trip
through the desert that shows incredible colors
during the blue hour is followed by associative
images of a woman, of cows and a donkey. Images
the viewer would not connect, if the extended
shot accompanied by dreamy music and a phone
conversation on the sound track would not have
put the viewer onto a third level of reception.
"Dreamers" on the other hand, does not have that
turning point into the mood the filmmaker sets in
the beginning of the movie, but it has the same
slow pace which on the other hand is interwoven
with the violent reality of destruction connected
with mining. It is a short piece produced as a
video clip, that has all the power to be shown in
film festivals.
We are looking forward to have Gabraz Sanna
present this engaging work in person and be
available for Q&A. Curated be Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Artist Link:
Van Demichelis and Jiulian Gonçalves:
https://postduo.bandcamp.com/releases
Links:
Directors Lounge http://www.directorslounge.net
Richfilm http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
Z-Bar http://www.z-bar.de
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Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany
email: kl...@richfilm.de
and film production: http://www.richfilm.de
phone: int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
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