How can cities and their architectures face climate emergencies in the face of exponential tragedy, beyond construction strategies and their technicalities?
Faced with such uncertainties, cinema—and culture in general—presents itself as a fundamental tool for denunciation, raising questions that challenge everyone. But not only that. Sequenced moving images are fertile ground for imagining other futures, reinventing social dynamics, broadening the debate on consumption, and truly agreeing on a balance between humans, built space, and the environment.
The challenges are stacked up.
This film screening, aligned with the curatorial thinking of the 14th BIAsp – Extremes: Architectures for a Hot World, seeks to critically provoke the public through a selection of feature and short films, both fictional and documentary, Brazilian and non-Brazilian, framing human rights, traditional knowledge, science and experimental constructions, extraction of natural resources, preservation and climate justice as central characters.
Rafael Blas – curator/programmer
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All screenings are free. Tickets can be picked up at the Cinemateca box office one hour before screenings.
Cinematheque: Largo Sen. Raul Cardoso, 207 – Vila Clementino, São Paulo – SP, 04021-070
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SESSION 7
THE TIME IT TAKES
Fiction, short film, 15 minutes
Year: 2013
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Cíntia Domit Bittar
Production: Novelo Filmeslia Obleitne
Synopsis
Even with the imminent end of the world, Jamila left home with one goal: to fix her fan.
THE SILENCE OF THE OYSTERS
Fiction, feature film, 120 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Marcos Pimentel
Production: Tempero Filmes
Synopsis
The life of a girl who was born in a village of mine workers and has
to learn to cope with the successive losses life has in store for her. After losing all her worlds, Kaylane insists on surviving and resisting. A film about growing up, surviving, and dreaming amidst the dust, mud, and silence.
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FULL PROGRAM
September 17 | Wednesday | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Session 1 | Quebrante + Iracema: an Amazonian sex
September 21 | Sunday | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Session 2 | Interior of the Earth + Top
September 24th | Wednesday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 3 | Colors Burn + Sky Falls
10/1 | Wednesday | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Session 4 | Heyari + Fisherman's Street No. 6
02.10 | Thursday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 5 | Cold Recife + Fisherman's Street No. 6
08.10 | Wednesday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 6 | The Institute of Weather Modification + The fall of the sky
09.10 | Thursday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 7 | The Time It Takes + The Silence of the Oysters