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Shorts by Jorge Furtado

  • Storm (Temporal)

    Directed by Jorge Furtado.
    With Biratã Vieira, Isabel Ibias, Xala Felippi.
    Brazil, 1984, video, color, 9 min.
    Portuguese with English subtitles.

This playful reworking of the horror film portrays the members of a conservative organization as the "normals" threatened by "monsters:" horny teenagers looking to party.

  • The Day Dorival Faced the Guards (O Dia em Que Dorival Encarou a Guarda)

    Directed by Jorge Furtado and José Pedro Goulart.
    With João Acaiabe, Sirmar Antunes, Zé Adão Barbosa.
    1986, video, color, 14 min.
    Portuguese with English subtitles.

When a prisoner demands a shower, the standoff between him and the guards quickly becomes a tragicomic example of the workings of power and race in Brazil in a microcosm. The tale is also an existential parable about getting what you want, at any cost.

  • Island of Flowers (Ilha das Flores)

    Directed by Jorge Furtado.
    Brazil, 1989, video, color, 12 min.
    Portuguese with English subtitles.

This stunning documentary coolly explains the cruelties of capitalism. An updating of Buñuel's Land Without Bread augmented with animation recalling Monty Python-era Terry Gilliam.

  • The Killing Machine (A Matadeira)

    Directed by Jorge Furtado.
    With Pedro Cardoso, Lisa Becker, Ben Berardi.
    Brazil, 1994, video, color, 16 min.
    Portuguese with English subtitles.
  • Look Closely (Veja bem)

    Directed by Jorge Furtado.
    With Lisa Becker, Roberto Birindelli, Carlos Cunha.
    Brazil, 1994, video, color, 9 min.
    Portuguese with English subtitles.

This playfully experimental video piece is Furtado's tip of the hat to that hallmark of Brazilian modernism, concrete poetry.

  • Angelo is Missing (Angelo Anda Sumido)

    Directed by Jorge Furtado.
    With Júlio Conte, Carlos Cunha, Antônio Carlos Falcão.
    Brazil, 1997, video, color, 17 min.
    Portuguese with English subtitles.

This shaggy-dog version of The Lady Vanishes takes a comic look at a serious problem: the fragmentation of urban space as an inadequate response to poverty and crime, and the alienation that results from such solutions.

  • The Sandwich (O Sanduíche)

    Directed by Jorge Furtado.
    With Janaína Kremer Motta, Felipe Mônaco, Nélson Dinitz.
    2000, 35mm, color, 13 min.
    Portuguese with English subtitles.

Furtado's endlessly creative play with narrative gives this short the form of a set of nesting dolls. A woman makes a man a sandwich, and the film unravels from there.

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