"The air emitted from the chests of multiform voices in the flea markets is not the same air that shakes the multicolored awnings that protect the owners of those same voices from the sun and the rain. Two different weights configure the fragile life balance of the streets in Mexico City".
CREDITS:
Year: 2006 (ponle el año al español tb)
Duration: 7'00"
Filming Format: Super 8
Original Soundtrack: O Grivo
Directed, Photographed and Edited by: Cao Guimarães
* Cao Guimarães, filmmaker and visual artist, was born in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he lives and works. Since the end of the 1980s he has been showing his work at various museums and galleries such as Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art NY, Gasworks, Frankfurten Kunstverein and Studio Guenzano. He was part of art biennials such as the XXV and XXVII São Paulo International Art Biennial, Insite Biennial 2005 (San Diego/ Tijuana). Some of his art pieces are part of public collections such as Tate Modern, Guggehein Museum, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, MoMA and Instituto Cultural Inhotim, among others.
His films have participated in various film festivals: Locarno International Film Festival (2004, 2006 and 2008), Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia (2007), Sundance Film Festival (2007), Cannes Film Festival (2005), Rotterdam International Film Festival (2005, 2007 and 2008), Cinema du Réel (2005), International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam – IDFA (2004), It's All True (2001, 2004 e 2005), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival (2008), São Paulo International Film Festival (2004 e 2006), Rio International Film Festival (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006), among many others. Web Site
