Festival BrasilNoar

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8th FESTIVAL BRASILNOAR – 8th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW BRAZILIAN ART
BARCELONA – NOVEMBER 2008

Brazil creating new art.

We present to follow the 8th Festival BrasilNoar – 8th International Festival of New Art Brazilian, Barcelona, November 2008.

With music concerts, film shows, plastic arts exhibition, lectures and courses, it’s a multidisciplinary event that encompasses all disciplines of art; from contemporary to the extensive popular Brazilian expression.

It’s a unique opportunity in Barcelona to get to know the most contemporary art in Brazil. Top bands, cutting–edge art projects, award–winning films, workshops, and conferences…
A Brazilian difficult to collect even within the country itself. _____________________________________________________________________________________________

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES – 8th FESTIVAL BRASILNOAR

RESUMEE

–MUSIC – CONCERTS IN SALA APOLO – Sunday, November 09th, from 20:00 to 04:30 – 10€.
It’s the main evening with concerts of 2008 in Barcelona with 8 groups coming from Brazil.
From popular folkloric music to contemporary Brazilian music.

–BRASILNOAR–EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY – From 1st to 30th of November – Free.
“La Ruta Escudellers de Arte” made in 11 pubs near the street of Escudellers
Bar Bahia, Buen Bocado, Los Alamos, Manolo, Lechuga, Nevermind, Shangay, Sushi Ya, Venus, Zoo and MaumaUnderground.

–FILM FESTIVAL – BRASILNOAR – Free.
Brazilian short movies – November 13th, 14th, 27th and 29th in MaumaUnderground, starting at 21:30.
Skate videos – 19th of November in Nevermind, starting at 22:00.

–CONFERENCES AT THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF BRASIL IN BARCELONA AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA – 06th and 07th of November, respectively – Free.

–DANCE COURSES – ESPAI PALMARES – November 22nd and 23rd – 15€ each course.
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MUSIC – CONCERTS IN SALA APOLO

Listen to the music on www.myspace.com/festivalbrasilnoar

09/11 – Sunday – Concerts with prominent groups and DJ’s from Brazilian scene.
Main evening with Brazilian concerts of 2008 in Barcelona.
From popular folkloric music to contemporary Brazilian music.
Hall: Sala Apolo (main hall).
Time: 19:30 Opening doors.
Address: c / Nou de la Rambla, 113, Poble Sec.
Metro: Paral.lel (Green Line).
BUS: 20, 36, 57, 64, 121 and 157.
NIGHT BUS: N0, N6.
Price: €10,00.
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–Mundo Livre S/A – (Myspace) – Manguebeat / Rock / Samba / Pop / Punk.
For the first time in Barcelona, Mundo Livre S / A, creators of the main cultural movement (the Manguebeat) for the past 30 years in Brazil, together with Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, they are a reference of the Brazilian music. Two of its 7 cd’s, Samba Esquema Noise (94) and Carnival na Obra (97), are among the 100 best Brazilian albums of all time, according to the Rolling Stone magazine.

Photo – Mundo Livre S/A

–Mamelo Sound System – (Myspace) – Hip Hop / Dub / Afro.
For the first time in Barcelona, MSS is a sonic urban–driven raids, rhymes and life, headed by microphones Lurdez da Luz and Rodrigo Brandão, Sound System from the original Babylon won the streets in the fateful year 2000 with the mission to prepare for new roads in the imagination of Brazilian hip hop. Media decade, three discs, Mamelo has a history that includes partnerships with prominent figures from the Brazilian scene, as Black Alien, Nana Vasconcelos, Dj Marky, Nação Zumbi, JT Meirelles, Mundo Livre S / A, and Hurtmold and Thaíde & DJ Hum, and international as, Afrika Bambaataa, the group Wax Poetics New Yorker, DJ J–Period of Zion I and Rahzel, the beatboxer of The Roots. Today, the combination is completed by Professor M. Stereo by the raids / effects in the PG & DJ scratches, and carries forward the launch of its latest album, Velha Guarda 22. Mamelo Sound System is a group of Hip–hop, Afro–Brazilian music and futuristic.

Photo – Mamelo Sound System

–Cila do Coco – (Myspace) – Música Popular (Folklore) / Coco / Maracatu / Samba.
For the first time in Barcelona, the master of Coco, Cila do Coco, emblem of the culture of Pernambuco, comes to represent the authentic expression of Brazilian popular with its strong percussion and rabeca group. It is the strength of Brazilian popular music that will make us all dance.

Photo – Cila do Coco

–Radiola – (Myspace) – Groove / Funk / Rock / Música Popular Brasilera (MPB).
For the first time in Europe with real style and a rhythmic sensibility that echoes at both holy houses of the drums (Candomblé *) from Bahia, as in the most visceral riffs of distorted guitar, Radiola is the union of music made up over the centuries. “Rocksambagroove” is the name of his baptism and the release of their 2nd album “Gelo Liso é Paraíso Pra Quem Sabe Dançar ” (Smooth Ice is Paradise for Who Knows to Dance)

Photo – Radiola

–Ticuqueiros – (Myspace) – Música Popular (Folklore) / Coco / Maracatu / Samba.
For the first time in Europe, the group of the Area da Mata (Pernambuco), fusion of traditional rhythms with electric guitars. A job as the Master of Ambrósio or Cordel do Fogo Encantado, deserve to start launching internacional. It will be the launching of their work “Dos Canaviais da Zona da Mata.”

Photo – Ticuqueiros

–Mariella Santiago – (Myspace) – Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) / Rock / Afro.
For the first time in Barcelona with her own work, Mariella, the singer of Wagon Cookin, a Brazilian cybernetic hybrid beauty with African roots.

Photo – Mariella Santiago

–Andreia Dias – (Myspace) – Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) / Rock / Pop.
For the first time in Barcelona for the release of their CD Vol.1, she has a work that was well received by critics in São Paulo.

Photo – Andreia Dias

–DJ Tudo – (Myspace) – Música Popular (Folklore) / Jazz / Electrònica / Breaks.
DJ Tudo (Alfredo Bello), along with DJ Afronome, was the first DJ of the legendary festival in Barcelona “Sounds of Brazil”, which led to BrasilNoar Festival. Specialist in all the rhythms of Brazilian music, especially the percussive, has the 2nd largest file of own recordings of popular and Brazilian folk music and is the owner of record label Mundo Melhor. It will be the release of his album “Garrafada,” a spectacular job with the participation of countless artists of great influence in the Brazilian music.

Photo – Dj Tudo

–DJ Le Cheval – (Myspace) – Funk / Ska Roots / Hip–Hop / Música Actual Brasileña.
From the rare Brazilian grooves of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s until the post–punk, with touches of funk, ska roots, hip–hop, Brazilian news, the sets of DJ Le Cheval (aka Daniel Setti) are based on three criterias: the originality of the topics, as these are related when mixed at the track, and, of course, his power on the slopes.
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DANCE

09/11 – Presentation of Capoeira.
Place: Sala Apolo (main hall).
Address: c / Nou de la Rambla, 113, Poble Sec.
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–Abadá Capoeira–Barcelona (Web) – right now some of the greatest broadcasters of Brazilian culture abroad.

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CONFERENCES

06/11 – Thursday – Conferences.
Subject: Cultural Diversity and International Cooperation.
Place: General Consulate of Brazil in Barcelona.
Time: 18:30.
Address: Av. Diagonal, 468 – 2nd, Eixample.
Price: Free – For advance reservation, send email in CONTACT with subject CONFERENCES with your data. Limited availability.
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07/11 – Friday – Conference.
Subject: Cultural Diversity and International Cooperation.
Place: University of Barcelona / Ed. Josep Carner, Classroom 0.1 – UB.
Time: 17:00.
Address: c / Aribau, 2, Eixample.
Price: Free – For advance reservation, send email in CONTACT with subject CONFERENCES with your data. Limited availability.
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Celebrate cultural differences, bringing Place cultures together; promote exchanges of best practices to ensure the preservation of diverse cultural expressions is among the priorities at the European level. Brazil, with its 180 million inhabitants, is an example of the mixture of traditions and backgrounds to coexist and generate new arts and attitudes.
The Festival BrasilNoar believes that dialogue between the individual and the community is essential to establish common ways for the promotion of cultural diversity, the main heritage of all communities. This meeting presents Latin American cultural practices that created new ways to spread its values wherever they operate in and out.
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DANCE COURSES

22/11 – Saturday – dance courses.
Subject: Samba, Afro–Brazilian, Capoeira …
Place: Espai Palmares – Tel. 934 434 086.
Time: 12:00 – 15:00 to 18:00.
Address: c / Riereta, 20 Bis, Raval.
Price: 15.00€ each course.
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23/11 – Sunday – dance courses.
Subject: Samba, Afro–Brazilian, Capoeira …
Place: Espai Palmares – Tel. 934 434 086.
Time: 12:00 – 15:00 to 18:00.
Address: c / Riereta, 20bis, Raval.
Price: 15.00€ each course.
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The courses of Brazilian dances and Samba can be practiced by all ages, no need of prior experience in the world of dance.
With Vanessa Aguilar Antunes, Rosana Bar and Capoeira Canigó.

Objectives:
–Coordination driving;
–Tone (gain and maintain muscle tone);
–Rhythm (sense of rhythm and its variants);
–Exercising the cardio–vascular system;
–Stimulating blood circulation;
–Free the body of toxins and stress;
–Meet some of the Afro–Brazilian rhythms.

–Vanessa Aguilar Antunes – a course that deals traditional Samba, going through different variations of this genre:
–Batucada (carnival music);
–Samba–Rock;
–Samba–Reggae…

–Rosana–Barra – born in the city of Sao Paulo (Brazil) co–founder and director of the company “Cuerpo Transitorio danzateatro” (Barcelona 1996).
Vocational training as an actress year 1992 in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Multidisciplinary artist, since 1986, conducts research into various areas of the performing arts and therapeutic.
Got a scholarship 1994 for the course of Emerging Trends in Theatre Design and Production (Sala Beckett, Barcelona).
Awards:
–1991 Honours for best costumes, by the creation of apparel and clothing of the show “Love and Death in Nelson Rodriguez,” I Festival of New Talent (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil);
–1999 Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the “II Certamen de Teatro para Directoras de Escena” (Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid), with the show “The Territory of Ophelia,” of the company “Cuerpo Transitorio en danzateatro”;
–2001 Finalist at the “II Premi D’Arts Escèniques Lleida“(Catalonia) with the draft of the show “Burka.”

–Capoeira–Canigó – seminar aimed for all those people who want to know this truly Brazilian form of expression, which combines fighting and dancing, originally from African slaves brought to Brazil.
The workshop aims at introducing the basic movements of Capoeira, and also give an explanation of music and instruments that composes it.
The course will be taught by 2 formed students from the Association “Capoeira Canigó”: Muleque and Cavalo, disciples of the “Contra–Mestre Ceará”.
The two of them 2have had their training in Barcelona, also supplementing it in Brazil: Santos (SP), and courses in Paris with recognized “Mestres” as Joâo Grande, Mestre Moraes, Mestre Nenel (son of Mestre Bimba) …
The Association “Canigó Capoeira” led by Contra–Mestre Ceará, is member and follows the line of the Association of Senzala Santos (SP), this last one led by Mestre Sombra, a living legend in the world within “capoeristic” world.
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EXHIBITION BRASILNOAR
“LA RUTA ESCUDELLERS DE ARTE”

01/11 (22:00) – Simultaneous opening of the “BrasilNoar Exhibition”
30/11 – Completion of the “BrasilNoar Exhibition”
Subject: “Ruta de Arte Escudellers,” is a major exhibition of photography in 11 pubs in Barcelona.
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Place: Bahia Bar – Monday to Thursday – 12:00 to 02:30.
Address: c / Escudellers, 46, Ciutat Vella (Gothic), Tel. 933185473
Subject: collective photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Daniel Cronfli – project “Enquanto o tempo dorme” (As long as the times sleep).
In Bahia, in the heady time it is allowed to rest.
This is where you forget the work goes slowly and thus win all the colours, one by one. Distracted, one can feel the sun beating on the face, a deep breath, pull in the sand, plunging into the sea and sleeps in the shade.
That is why, at this point, everyone has the power to enjoy every second of the way it should. Here, time is always taking a nap.
Trancoso /Caraíva /Barra Grande, Bahia.
(This text has been changed in relation to the printed program)

Photo – Daniel Cronfli

–Dahl Isabell – project “Meninos da Barra” (Kids from Barra)
A normal digital camera, a spectacular evening and two young friends, were the ingredients for these curious snapshots that captures the spontaneity of friendship in one of the most beautiful beaches on the planet, Porto da Barra, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Photo – Isabell Dahl
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Place: Buen Bocado – Monday to Thursday – 13:00 to 16:00 and 18:00 to 02:00.
Address: c / Escudellers, 58, Ciutat Vella (Gothic), Tel. 933,173,364.
Subject: individual photo essay
Price: Free.
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–Fernanda–Pitanga – “Sonrisas do Bombay” – (Smiles of Bombay)
“Sonrisas do Bombay” was founded by Spanish journalist Jaume Sanllorente, who, after numerous trips to India and see up close the needs of Bombay, especially of those untouchable and descastados, decided to quit his job and invest his savings in condition a small orphanage in the area of Thane, embarking on a peaceful struggle against poverty in Mumbai which continues day after day.

“Get to know these creatures has been a change in my life. From the first contact with James and his “big family”, sensed that there are still people who care about others. In this case I speak of Jaume, a person with an impressive inner strength, it has come from the streets of India to over 2,200 children and has given them the opportunity to go to school, have a roof, food and a family. I visited the school that has been built for these kids and I was delighted! At that time it was a week left to start classes and I saw they were all excited to see reach the big day. The first day of class! Very exciting. In the very near future I hope to be with them again and see their smiles still on their precious emoticons! Congratulations Bombay Oceanography and keep doing this work so nice with these children. And from now I will speak to everyone of you!”

Photo – Fernanda Pitanga
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Place: Los Alamos – Monday to Friday – from 20:00 to 02:30.
Address: c / Escudellers, 12, Ciutat Vella (Gothic), Tel. 933 186 191.
Subject: collective photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Fabio Feijó – project “Paisaje posible” – (Possible landscape)
The series of photos that the Brazilian photographer Fabio Abreu Feijó shows suggests a possible reading of open spaces and landscapes within the city of Barcelona.
The photographer’s intention is not to simply recant sights or record scenes of everyday people, but to create a new perspective of looking towards the city. The idea of representing and re–interpret spaces is very widespread in the history of photography. In fact the picture was “born” in big cities and the office of the photographer can also be understood as a cartographer, who toured the space, and delimits the records. In this series the delimitation tends to expand. The edges and frames disappear. The table grows. The buildings, houses and streets are confused with the topography; the human figure is almost absent. The sky takes exaggerated proportions within the composition of the images to have it as a possible participant in the daily experience – and photographic, why not?
Possible landscape; ¿sequence of non–landscape, assembly, sky, city?
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Place: Manolo – Monday to Friday – from 22:00 to 02:00.
Address: c / Lancaster, 3, Ciutat Vella (Raval).
Subject: collective photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Marcello Cavalcanti, Nicholas Parker and Andre dos Santos – “Vistas Chinesas” – (Chinese View).
Each skater has his shrine. The place where he feels the desire to accelerate, discover his potential and maximize the use of urban space. In Rio de Janeiro, the Mecca of “down hill skate ” it’s known as “Vista Chinesa.” Since the peak in the “Mesa do Imperador”, you can download in 2 directions, north or south, cutting the National Park of Tijuca forest. For over 5 years, a group of skaters attended actively to this location, about to become the highest reference of the place. Skaters: Marcello Cavalcanti, Nicholas Parker, Andre dos Santos, Victor Willemsens, Daniel Penteado, Pedro Abreu, Henrique Abreu, Gustavo Cavalcanti and Marcelo Profeta.

Photo – Marcello Cavalcanti
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Place: Lechuga – Monday to Thursday – 12:00 to 00:00.
Address: c / Escudellers, 31, Ciutat Vella (Gothic).
Subject: individual photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Raphael Dias – project “Cenários de um Brasil” (Scenarios of a Brazil)
Brazil, father of forests, very green as its flag and as its vast extension.
Country that covers a large part of the coast of South America.
Blended of art, misery and worrying, however, with a lot of faith.
Strange country, renowned for having many different characteristics.
Here, in “scenarios of a Brazil” brief tests of facets are presented of a country that does not have a single face, and indeed many. Sublime and extreme in all its aspects.

Photo – Raphael Dias
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Place: Nevermind – Monday to Friday – from 19:30 to 02:30.
Address: c / Escudellers Blancs, 3, Ciutat Vella (Gothic), Tel. 933026146.
Subject: collective photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Lepesteur Jorge, Julio Kohl, Marcos Villas Boas, Antonio Brasiliana, Marcelo Naddeo and Tiago Gracindo – project “Silêncio” (Silence).
The passion for skateboarding and the fascination for the opportunity to spend hours watching the many configurations of an urban city like Sao Paulo.
The images have a simple and pure aesthetics. Each photograph shows a unique moment of reflection, observation and assimilation of the city of Sao Paulo. Images slow in everything that moves, quick images of almost anything that does not move, movement and immobility. A brute reality as it is recorded by the camera, a reality distorted by our memories and false calculations, the meaning of silence.

Photo – Jorge Lepesteur

Photo – Antonio Brasiliano

Photo – Julio Kohl

–Luiz Oliveira – project “Skate, paint or die.”
Asphalt, concrete, night aroma, narrow streets, falls, adrenaline, fall, fall and rise again, live today, pain and blood; tomorrow spray, highlighter and the ephemeral way… skate or die. The original idea belongs to Luiz, several artists meet with the same concept, skate, this time the commitment is collective, mixed techniques, the same support, different interpretations.
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Place: Shangai – Monday to Thursday – 21:00 to 02:00.
Address: c / Agla, 3, Ciutat Vella (Gothic).
Subject: collective photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Soares Guga – project “Pelada na pedra que canta” (Football at the rock that sings).
This trial was recorded during a beautiful afternoon at the end of the beach Jaguaribe right in front of “Ponto de culture” of Lia Itamaracá. Jaguaribe – Ilha Itamaracá – Pernambuco, Brazil, 2008.

Photo – Guga Soares

–Mateus Sat – “Formas e cores” (Shapes and colours).
As the title suggests, the photos prioritize the colours and shapes that are found on the bodies and robes of the participants in the popular culture of the state of Pernambuco. The images are the result of the relationship between the author and a PLEC–PLEC (disposable camera). This camera has a very bad lens and a plastic mask that simulates a panoramic picture. Due to lack of resources it has a sophisticated optical texture, colour and very particular approach. The result is an image different from that currently produced in the digital world.

Photo – Mateus Sá
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Place: Sushi Ya – Monday to Saturday – 13:15 to 16:00 and 20:15 to 23:15.
Address: c / Comet, 3, Ciutat Vella (Gothic), Tel.932690671.
Subject: individual photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Marcelo Naddeo – project “Tachibana Hime.”
The legend speaks of a princess who belongs to a noble family of samurai and has access to the art of the sword, a practice exclusively male, and even in spite of being a woman, has become an excellent “warrior” by never having lost to any man. On a certain day, after an exhaustive training, Tachibana stops to rest and went into a deep sleep, where she fought with a black dragon, and despite having everything, could not kill him … Tachibana woke confused and she realized that, in reality, no one is invincible, and can not always win, no matter how clever … From there on she took a different position, becoming a good mother and wife, becoming an expert on other issues that not only fight.

Photo – Marcelo Naddeo
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Place: Venus – Monday to Saturday – 12:00 to 00:00.
Address: c / d ‘Avinyó, 25, Ciutat Vella (Gothic) Tel. 933,011,585.
Subject: collective photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Isaias Belo – project “Primitividade” (Primitive).
This exhibition shows the result of years of work after the artist Francisco Brennand in the composition of the Temple of Sacrifice, which describes the horrors of war that decimated the Indians in Peru. The uniqueness of this work is that the documentation was done in pinhole. The aesthetic result is impressive because the photographer develops a dialogue between the material of the positives and negatives of the pictures, in addition to working with overlapping images, a technical permitted by the pinhole. “Primitividade” is also shown to offer a look at the reality of Francisco Brennand, and the relationship that develops with the artist members of his workshop, in photographs taken during the day of its daily creation.

Photo – Isaias Belo

Luca Barreto – project “WC Iraq.”
Various personalities from the sub–world of Pernambuco, frustrated designers, accursed poets, outdated DJs and recognized artists have posed for the project toilette for Iraq (essay–portrait–pinlux), with no obligation to continue to succeed and shine in the universe.

Photo – Luca Barreto
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Place: Zoo – from Wednesday to Friday – from 11:00 to 02:00.
Address: c / Escudellers, 33.
Subject: individual photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Rio Belo – “Posto 9″ (Post 9).
What draws the attention of that beautiful girl on the beach of Ipanema? Why do some celebrities sing the Posto Nove in its equally famous songs? Why a large Catalan music producer has its name inspired by this site?
Posto 9, is where the carioca art class elected to enjoy the beach, with its “Ipanemic Views”

Photo – Rio Belo
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Place: MaumaUnderground – from Thursday to Saturday – from 23:00 to 2:30.
Address: c / Fontrodona, 33–35, Poble Sec, Tel. 934,418,015.
Subject: individual photo essay.
Price: Free.
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–Ivan Alecrim (Group Communiqué) – project “Market of São José.”
This project aims to stimulate the production of images, enhance cultural development and give visibility to the market of São José, recording the people and the market itself, thereby enhancing the heritage of Pernambuco.

Photo – Ivan Alecrim
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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BRASILNOAR
“International Film Exhibition BrasilNoar”, with Brazilians Short movies.

13/11/08 – Thursday.
Place: Hall MaumaUnderground.
Time: 21:30.
Address: c / Fontrodona 33–35, Poble Sec.
Price: Free.
Subject: Selection “BrasilNoar 2008″.
By: Roberio Pitanga.
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–“Man” – Luan Banzai – Fiction – 7’27’’.
Synopsis: Lincon is a guy dedicated to what he does. And organized a party at his house. The first guest arrives, and discovers that she is the only one.

–“A valvula” (The valve) – Luan Banzai – Fiction – 10’14’’.
Synopsis: A boy accidentally discovers a mysterious valve in the middle of a forest.

–“Curitiba Street Short” – Luan Banzai – Video Art – 3’17’’.
Synopsis: Small stories that go through the streets of Curitiba, the capital of Paraná.

–“Banzai Ad Studio” – Luan Banzai – Video Art – 0’31’’.
Synopsis: Heads are going to fall.

–“Be.ing” – Luan Banzai – Video art – 2’23’’.
Synopsis: The changes at an uncertain pace.

–“Tarantino’s mind” – 300ml – Fiction – 13’.
Synopsis: With Seu Jorge and Selton Mello. Two friends meet at a traditional bar in São Paulo to talk about an interesting theory about the film’s director Quentin Tarantino.

–“Entre Santos” (Between Saints) – Isabell Dahl and Roberio Pitanga – Documentary – 16’.
The meaning of the name “Entre Santos” emerges because of the two saints, São Sebastian (20/01) and São Brás (03/02), where in Trancoso / Bahia / Brazil, until today, it’s commemorate a feast for each of these saints. They are represented by two masts with their colourful banners with the image of the saint in his flag, which are located across the Church São João Batista, in Trancoso. The documentary captures the whole process of the party, since the withdrawal of the two masts in the forest, passing through the making of the flags, the procession of the saints and the “stick dance”, with its repetitive music and singing.

–“Oficina Perdiz” (Perdiz Mechanics) – Marcelo Diaz – Documentary – 20’06’’.
Synopsis: From the Block C and D, a public area in Brasilia, Perdiz has a mechanics of cars divided between machinery and theatre plays.

–“Irmâo bom” (Good Brother) – Renato Martins and Joaquim Castro – Experimental – 16’11’’.
Synopsis: With Hermeto Pascoal, Irmâo bom – is a tribute poem to the filmmaker Sergio Bernardes.
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14/11/08 – Friday.
Place: Hall MaumaUnderground.
Time: 21:30.
Address: c / Fontrodona 33–35, Poble Sec.
Price: Free.
Subject: Selection “Revelando Brasis – 1st year”.
By: Roberio Pitanga.
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Revelando os Brasis (Revealing the various facets of Brazil), is a project of the Instituto Marlin Azul, which aims to promote inclusion and training services through stimulating the production of digital videos. The project, aimed at residents of the municipalities up to 20 thousand inhabitants, contributes to the formation of critical receptors and to produce works that record the memory and the cultural diversity of the country, revealing new prospects for Brazil.

–“Balandê / Baião” – Antônio de Noronha Pessoa Filho – Documentary – 13’35’’.
Synopsis: The story of Zé Coelho, which at his 84 years is the Master of Balanda and Baião in the city Monsenhor Gil.

–“Edilamar” – Ivy Goulart – Fiction – 17’20’’.
Synopsis: Based on real events, a tragic incident involving the young Edilamar will mark the lives of their friends, relatives and other people of the city.

–“Bate–Paus (Bate–Sticks) – Jorge Kuster Jacob – Documentary – 13’15’’.
Synopsis: The persecution suffered by the “pomeranos” and their descendants in the state of Espirito Santos, during the 2nd World War.

–“Brilhantino” – Ériton Bernardes Berçoco – Documentary – 16’05’.
Synopsis: After losing their land, Brilhantino refused to leave the land, and went to live in a cave located in its former property.

– “Documentário sobre Chico Abelha” (A documentary about Chico Abelha) – Uiara Maria Carneiro da Cunha – Documentary – 14’45’’.
Synopsis: History of Chico Abelha, who lives in the middle of the forest in the Serra da Mantiqueira, in harmony with nature.
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19/11/08 – Wednesday.
Places: Nevermind.
Time: 21:30.
Address: c / Escudellers Blanc, 3, Ciutat Vella (Gothic).
Price: Free.
Subject: Selection “Brazilian Skate Videos.”
By: Roberio Pitanga.
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–“La Bruja BCN” – Caio Beraldo, Fernando Cano and Helio Pelosi – Video Art – 27’.
Synopsis: The video of Skate “La Bruja BCN” shows the union of a group of Brazilian skaters in Barcelona, that with a video camera recorded images of the city for nearly two years. With Charlie B, Trkinas, Galo Cego, F. Cano, Spock, Socado, Massoti, Juliano, Flow, Alex Carolino and Rodrigo Lima.

–“Smooth Operations” – Marcello Cavalcanti – Video Art – 9’.
Synopsis: How does it feel to descend a slope of mountain aboard a skateboard? This is the theme of the short film Smooth Operations, produced by the film crew Triboaventura.com. Action scenes, high–adrenaline with incredible manoeuvres, delirious falls and images that show how smooth and accurate these sports can be. The images were made on the slopes of “Vista Chinesa” (Rio de Janeiro) – regarded as one of the most difficult on the national scene, for its bends, the angle of rapidly incline and decline and high strength of the cars going up and down. They also include images in the mountains of California North star at Tahoe.
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27/11/08 – Thursday.
Place: MaumaUnderground.
Hours: 21:30.
Address: c / Fontrodona 33–35, Poble Sec.
Price: Free.
Subject: Selection “Panorama Brazil.”
By: Rejane Zille.
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–“Tropico das Cabras” (Tropic of goats) – Fernando Coimbra – Fiction – 22’.
Synopsis: A couple in crisis travels from the coast to the interior of Sao Paulo, in a car, to save or lose their relationship. Little by little, it is a strange game involving sexual.

–“Viva volta” (Long live the return) – Heloisa Passos – Documentary – 15’.
Synopsis: “Viva volta” is a documentary with the Brazilian trombonist Raul de Souza that
since 1971 lives outside of Brazil, sick because of the lack of recognition in his country.
With the sound of his trombone in the background, the film has the character back to
Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro and promotes the reunion of Raul and Maria Bethania, which together hold devotion for music.

–“Engano” (Cheating) – Cavi Borges – Fiction – 11’.
Synopsis: A man. A woman. A city. Two shots.

–“Homens” (Males) – Lucia Caus – Documentary – 21’.
Synopsis: The stories of courage demonstrated by the disagreements and joys experienced by homosexuals in small towns in north–eastern Brazil.

–“Até o Sol raiá” (Until dawn) – Fernando Jorge and Leandro Amorin – Animation – 12’.
Synopsis: “Até o Sol raiá” is a fantasy tale and an imagination of the imagery of the Northeast. Characters created by an artisan of clay earn a living and stimulate city in a very quiet night of celebration. 3D animation, the film combines the tradition of craftsmanship in clay with the “cangaço”, in reference to the two icons of the culture of the Northeast.
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29/11/08 – Saturday.
Place: MaumaUnderground.
Time: 21:30.
Address: c / Fontrodona 33–35, Poble Sec.
Price: Free.
Subject: Selection “Panorama Brazil.”
By: Rejane Zille.
(Map)

–“Noite de domingo” (Sunday Night) – Rodrigo Hinrichsen – Fiction – 16’.
Synopsis: Sunday Night is depressing to many, the eve of a week that begin with an interminable feeling. So for millions of people, including João and Maria, who doesn’t know each other become complicit in an evening game, where the silence is more eloquent than what is being said.

–“O livro de Walachai” (The book of Walachai) – Rejane Zilles – Documentary – 15’.
Synopsis: In Walachai, a small German community south of Brazil, lives a farmer and teacher Joao Benno Wendlingen. He has devoted his life to provide literacy to children in the village, which until then only spoke German. In recent years it has recorded, in 400 pages of impeccable calligraphy, the history of this place.
A piece of Brazil that even Brazil itself doesn’t know.

–“A cauda do dinossauro” (The tail of the dinosaur) – Francisco Garcia – Fiction – 15’.
Synopsis: a decadent underworld of a city in ruins, where everything was forbidden, a woman who seeks the ultimate pleasures. Based on the work of the comic book Angeli.

–“Um ridiculous em Amsterdam” (A ridiculous in Amsterdam) – Diego Gozze – Fiction – 13’.
Synopsis: A boy, owner of a dramatic life story participated in a documentary where a young filmmaker is convenient to unusual methods to discover their privacy.

–“Dossiê Rê Bordosa” – César Cabral – Animation – 16’.
Synopsis: Fame? An inflated ego? Spirit scavenger? What were Angeli’s real reasons behind the death of Rê Bordosa, his most famous creation? This stop motion animated documentary investigates the crime.

–“Booker Pittman” – Rodrigo Grota – Fiction – 15’.
Synopsis: Fragments of the stay of the American jazzman Booker Pittman in the city of Londrina in the 50s. Saxophonist pointer in the 30s came to play with big names such as Count Basie, Ben Webster and Louis Armstrong, in addition to having created the first trio of Brazilian jazz.