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In the Intense Now
(No Intenso Agora)

João Moreira Salles in conversation with Bruno Carvalho and Mariano Siskind
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by João Moreira Salles.
Brazil, 2018, DCP, color and b&w, 127 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
DCP source: Icarus Films

Salles’ remarkable essay film looks back, wistfully but also probingly, at the convulsive forces “in the air” during the 1960s which were able, seemingly, to ignite revolutions of different force and magnitude around the globe. Combining a wide range of newsreel, television and home movie footage, In the Intense Now assembles a composite vision of cataclysmic events in Paris, Prague, China and Brazil while locating melancholy parallels in the fleeting ebullience and ultimate failure shared by the different youth-led movements and brutal rebuttals that they inspired. Salles discovers in archival footage a means to capture the elusive feeling, the emotion, of a fleeting moment, felt perhaps most deeply in his use of Super-8 footage shot by his mother in Beijing in 1966, “naïve” images that predictively reveal the larger counter-revolution in motion and dispel the romanticized visual clichés automatically used to evoke May ’68 as a cultural and historical milestone. – HG

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      In the Intense Now (No Intenso Agora) introduction and post-screening discussion with Bruno Carvalho, João Moreira Salles and Mariano Siskind.

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