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En new short films, Rosa Berardo highlights the power of choices and rescues memories intertwined with madness
Published on 11/27/2017 – in O Popular
The award-winning, and nationally recognized, filmmaker based in Goiás Rosa Berardo launches this Tuesday her most recent short films. Marks of Dictatorship in the Life of an Actor and False Alarm have just been finalized and will be shown, from 7 pm, at Lumière Bougainville. The productions are part of the Mostra Rosa Berardo – Acaso, Ditadura e Memórias, which has free admission and also brings the rescue of the film André Louco, recorded almost 30 years ago and which was remastered and digitized. The productions have as a key point the characters’ relationship with each other, with themselves and with everyday events, which can change impressions on order, order and disorder.
Completed in April of this year, the short film Marcas da Ditadura in the life of an actor records a more modern phase for the director. The story is told in a hybrid way and mixes scenes recorded with comics, comic book style, in black and white. In the documentary, Rosa tells the experience of Goiás actor Almir de Amorim with the Brazilian military dictatorship and proposes a reflection on the theme, addressing the period in which he was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for being against the military regime. “It is very important to shed light on the discussion on how psychiatry was used to discredit people and justify violence in the military dictatorship. Men and women were removed from society on the pretext that they did not fit the parameters of behavior.”
To help with the composition of the short film, which has the participation of actor Sérgio Mamberti, Rosa embarked on an in-depth historical research on the psychiatric hospitals Adalto Botelho, in Goiânia, and Franco da Rocha, in São Paulo. “Reconstructing Almir’s story at a time when people are calling for military intervention was very emotional. I had to interview him more than five times over a year, asking the same questions so that we could talk about it. In addition, I was very emotional because my father was a political prisoner and I experienced firsthand the reflections of this state of violence and oppression.”
In the short film Alarme Falso, the plot revolves around how decisions and choices irreparably transform fate. With text by Carlos Moreli, the film features actors Bela Carrijo and Gustavo Duque.
Crazy is who tells me
The theme of madness also appears in the remastered and digitized version of the film André Louco, an adaptation of the work of Bernardo Élis, from Goiás, which marked the resumption of cinema in Goiás in the early 1990s. “The film, which had a single copy and was made in 35mm film, remained at Cine Cultura for a long time and nothing was done to rescue the material. The film was already in a state of disrepair when I received an offer from Canada to sponsor the restoration of the film. It is a legacy that remains for Goiás.”
The story focuses on the city’s point of view in relation to normality and insanity, facing a young man considered to be unbalanced. “The madman of Bernardo, who has an extremely up-to-date work, is a person who bothers society for having different behavior patterns. It is a universal archetype of what normality and madness would be.”
At the end of the short film screenings, Rosa participates in a roundtable in which filmmakers and professors from the area discuss the representation of balance and imbalance in the audiovisual scene. Among the debaters will be Tânia Montoro, PhD in Film from the University of Barcelona and Professor of Film at UnB; and Maria Luiza Mendonça, professor of Cinema and Communication at UFG. The mediation will be done by the artist and professor at UFG, Edgar Franco.
Profile
Born in São Paulo, Rosa Maria Berardo considers herself from Goiás. Famous for dedicating herself to themes such as cultural identity, alterity, genders and ethnicities, the screenwriter and filmmaker has awarded works in Brazil and abroad. PhD in Cinema at the University of Sorbonne, in France, and post-doctorate at the Université du Québec à Montreal, Rosa produces films and teaches courses at the Casa do Cinema. As a photographer, she held a series of national and international exhibitions and was recognized as one of the most outstanding Brazilian artists in the arts in recent years. Currently, Rosa is working on her first feature, which should be recorded, starting in 2018, in the city of Goiás.
Read in full at:
https://www.opopular.com.br/editorias/magazine/rosa-berardo-lan%C3%A7a-novos-curtas-metragens-nesta-ter%C3%A7a-feira-1.1404080
