Vitor Cozilos

What can 20 actors’ faces, waiting for a casting call, reveal?

The cinematographic and literary versions of the same macabre plot are incorporated and establish tortuous relationships in an atmosphere where maintaining the mystery can be a matter of survival.

Guided by a messiah, cosmonauts take over a planet, transforming its original inhabitants into workers in their work: the construction of a nation. But Ning, a collective consciousness of revolt, emerges, bringing the imminence of a general strike.

A travel agency employee is tasked with providing a new and unusual service to his boss. It is the delivery of a document that seems to be essential for the company to run. In this context, the precarious working conditions are contrasted with the obscurity and magnitude of the final product offered.

MATRACA reveals, in old urban spaces in the city center, a fortress of sounds and silences; urban presence and voids; vestiges of the enjoyment of the future, present and past times of this multifaceted society. Echoes of this past erupt in an unexpected ghostly visit, which appears to scare or to be scared? Vitor Colares strolls through the center of Fortaleza reflecting and recalling excerpts from the controversial book A Normalista by Adolfo Caminha, explaining the historical stays and ruptures that persist in wandering around the city.