Alex Brandão

Responsible and methodical, Felipe is about to complete his master's degree and finds himself under pressure to try a solution to rescue his 5-year marriage. Meanwhile Bruno, explosive and questioner, tries to make up for his partner's lack of time with night outings. The relationship crisis reaches the point where the two try to find over these five years where part of the way they have reached that state. Fights, reconciliations, promises and abdications involve the couple's trajectory from the first meeting to the factual “has come to an end”.

Modou is Senegalese and has lived in Brazil for years. The film seeks to register its relationship with percussion and the preservation of African traditions that refer to its origins. A film about memory shot in Super 8 in single take. Shot in Super 8 with two cartridges filmed in single take, this film shows images of an African percussionist playing his drum, a djêmbe, with the sea in the background, reconnecting with Africa on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Shot in 2021 with film that expired almost 50 years before, in the 1970s, the film establishes a relationship between the deterioration of the emulsion and the precariousness of film preservation in Brazil.

A film that records natural forces and exalts sensory experiences. (Super 8mm – Color – 4′)