Through interviews with Brazilian filmmakers who deal with the theme LGBT In his films, the book sheds light on the difficulties that each director faces in producing their films.
+The Chronicles of Miramar – Fiction book with a Gay character is inspired by Harry Potter
By creating an unprecedented mosaic of interviews with these filmmakers, filmmaker and journalist Lufe Steffen seeks a kinship with seminal works of the same genre, such as "Hitchcock Truffaut" (by François Truffaut) and "After All, Who Makes the Films" (by Peter Bogdanovich ) – both composed by a filmmaker interviewing his colleague(s).
Parallel to the publication of the book, there will be a retrospective exhibition, which will show some short films directed by the filmmakers interviewed in the book.
Historic context
In the last twenty years, Brazilian cinema has been reborn with the so-called "resumption" phase, after the hiatus created by the end of Embrafilme.
In these last two decades, our production has reinvented itself and pluralized itself. Among the paths opened, an aesthetically eclectic cinema emerged, with different languages, but which is unified by one theme: sexual diversity.
We cannot talk about a cultural movement of gay cinema in Brazil, because the word "movement" usually defines artists and works linked by aesthetic characteristics.
But we can group some Brazilian filmmakers who, recurrently, have dedicated themselves to making films starring characters gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites, transsexuals, transgender people – creating thus a mosaic of representations of the GLBT universe.
The book therefore gives the floor to this group of filmmakers, born in different cities in Brazil, also producing in different parts of the country. Through direct interviews, they reveal their creative processes, their art and their cinema.
Among those interviewed in the book are names such as Daniel Ribeiro (director of the world award-winning "Today I Want to Go Back Alone"), Dácio Pinheiro (director of the documentary "My Friend Claudia", which narrates the trajectory of transvestite artist Claudia Wonder), Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon (directors of the film "Sea shore"), Marcelo Caetano (awarded for short films such as "Bailão"), Octavio Chamorro (award-winning director for films such as "Half a Bowl Slut") and the members of the collective (based in Recife) Outbreak & Dazzle, in a total of twenty interviews.
Book release
For those who were also interested in this babadeira book, full of art, culture and history, the launch takes place next Saturday (23) at Espaço dos Parlapatões – Praça Roosevelt, 158 – São Paulo / SP, at 17pm.
Great opportunity to purchase the book and talk directly to the author!
