IMS - Instituto Moreira Salles

One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country exhausted from violent acts. Republic is a short film realized at home, in the beginning of 2020s quarantine, in the center of São Paulo, República neighborhood.

Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.

The paths that the artist traveled to create two essays that are landmarks of contemporary Brazilian photography.

"A Gente Acaba Aqui" is the presence of death among the living. It is the reunion of family and friends around my uncle's body. A funeral documentary about the only certainty in life.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.

Documentary about the Minas Gerais photographer Assis Horta, who immortalized the architectural heritage and society of Diamantina. The great impulse of his career came in 1943, with the Consolidation of Labor Laws, promulgated by Getúlio Vargas. By making mandatory a professional card with photo, Vargas gave the push that the working class needed to enter Horta's photographic studio. In the years that followed, the photographer portrayed hundreds of people. In 3x4 or full-length, many took their first portrait.

A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic and stylistic obsessions.

The combination of COVID-19 and the far right in power could spell the end of human life on Earth. Short film made for the IMS Convida program.

A short documentary on how the films "Libertários" and "Chapeleiros" are connected to the "Projeto Imagens e Histórias da Industrialização no Brasil" created by the Campinas State University.