Sopro
Brazil
Marcos Pimentel
«Sopro» [Breath] is a creative documentary about human existence and the mysteries of life and death, seen in the everyday life of a rural community where families have lived for years, almost completely isolated from contact with the outside world. It is an observation of the daily routine in a small, remote village in Brazil’s interior, near the Ibitipoca State Park in the state of Minas Gerais. The region’s progress and growing tourism have not yet found the village, and farm families attempt to subsist and preserve the old habits and customs threatened by today’s globalized world. In this faraway place, the inhabitants survive on subsistence farming and the breeding of cows, pigs and chickens. They do some crafts and keep up centuries-old traditions of inland rural life.
Without any dialogues, interviews or narration, the film silently observes daily life in this totally isolated microcosm. Its raw material is the human condition, the essence of people living in a true symbiosis with nature, depending on it physically and existentially. There is wind, dust, mountains, and time… Man and nature live together there in both harmony and conflict, amidst what is and what could be, in the vastness of a landscape grander than vision can grasp.
It is a creative documentary which, through simplicity, searches for the essence of the human being as well as the very language of cinematography. It uses the anguish of emptiness and silence to show the transcendence of time and to find the fundamental elements of daily life, exile, the world’s erosion and the emotions that transport us in the universe. What words cannot express is communicated in an intentionally open, fragmented, reflective and fluid way. Life, death, existence… They are journeys where multiple paths travel inland and inward towards the essence of humankind. They are memory and imagination. They are paths leading to everywhere and nowhere. They are trails of disillusion and pain before the inevitable. But hope and tenderness can rebuild with thoughts and emotions the places where the hypothesis of reconstruction had languished.
Without any dialogues, interviews or narration, the film silently observes daily life in this totally isolated microcosm. Its raw material is the human condition, the essence of people living in a true symbiosis with nature, depending on it physically and existentially. There is wind, dust, mountains, and time… Man and nature live together there in both harmony and conflict, amidst what is and what could be, in the vastness of a landscape grander than vision can grasp.
It is a creative documentary which, through simplicity, searches for the essence of the human being as well as the very language of cinematography. It uses the anguish of emptiness and silence to show the transcendence of time and to find the fundamental elements of daily life, exile, the world’s erosion and the emotions that transport us in the universe. What words cannot express is communicated in an intentionally open, fragmented, reflective and fluid way. Life, death, existence… They are journeys where multiple paths travel inland and inward towards the essence of humankind. They are memory and imagination. They are paths leading to everywhere and nowhere. They are trails of disillusion and pain before the inevitable. But hope and tenderness can rebuild with thoughts and emotions the places where the hypothesis of reconstruction had languished.
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Festivals and Awards:
Nyon 2013: Visions du Réel, Section Etat d'Esprit
Los Angeles 2013, Hollywood Brazilian Filmfestival
Rio de Janeiro 2013, Indie International Filmfestival
Saõ Luis 2013: Lume Filmes Award
Havana 2013: Festival Intern. del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Sector Industria
Los Angeles 2013, Hollywood Brazilian Filmfestival
Rio de Janeiro 2013, Indie International Filmfestival
Saõ Luis 2013: Lume Filmes Award
Havana 2013: Festival Intern. del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Sector Industria
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