João Brites

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation. With students of unidentified present time (1968? 1970?), the themes developed, in Büchner, are triggered by the publication of "The Messenger of Hesse", a pamphlet addressed to the peasants, urging them to revolt. Their misunderstanding, as well as the repression of the young revolutionaries, leads Büchner to a particularly skeptical and painful attitude...

The reality has proved to be cruel, empty, violent and uninteresting and the courageous option to take the character and arrive, remain or leave that place or (not a place) symbolizes the option that we all have to choose in face of the different possible paths that appear before us. There is almost no text, as there is not much more interesting to say. Each one lives the autistic condition of their choice or is little away from it. In reality, only an old man, sitting patiently at the side of the road, watching the crowds of people coming and going, arriving or leaving. A voayer interested in that movement, which marks the actions of newcomers, but does not interfere with their destinies. What is that place, what does it represent? Will it be a dream, a ship, or ...... just ....... UTOPIA?