Shorts by Jorge Furtado
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.