15’00” | DV | Colour | 2002 | Brazil
Screening Format: DV
Filming Format: Super 8/ DV
Original Soundtrack: O Grivo
Original Script: Cao Guimarães & Rivane Neuenshwander
Directed, Photographed and edited by: Cao Guimarães
This film was born in collaboration with artist Rivane Neuenschwander. The action consisted in randomly distributing pieces of a world map inside books standing in the bookshelves of Stockholm’s public library. The possible correlations between any place in the world and a book (or a page in book) are mysteries safeguarded by the destiny of the library’s regular visitors.
Resurrectus Est is a hand painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of twig with multiple colors, with much green "leafiness".
Seven people of political, scientific, and social importance are called together when a message is received from space saying simply, "We're coming to help you.
Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled.
By a stupid coincidence, single mother Tanja and her two children have to share their vacation home on the Cote d'Azur with the writer Paul Wackernagel.
Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in this gala New Year's Eve performance, organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's death.
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