Scene from the film The Big Worm
Scene from the film The Big Worm
Scene from the film The Big Worm
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The Big Worm

Direction
Year 
2011
Country
  • Brazil
  • France
Runtime
30min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

A car with a big sound system broadcasts a text of Eduardo Affonso Reidy on his modern architecture precepts. It drives around the Conjunto Habitacional Pedregulho, a social housing complex built from 1946 by the same architect and also called Minhocão (the big worm) by his inhabitants. The ballet of the driving car, combined with interviews, sound extracts from the fiction film « Lucio Flávio, the passenger of agony » (shot partly in the site) and other scenes, produce a portrait of a major modernist Brazilian building and of the popular northern zone´s context of Rio de Janeiro and raises issues about patrimony and memory of social housings in a place which is about to be renovated after 50 years of state´s abandonment and autonomous management.

Details

  • Original Title
    Minhocão
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Grisey, Raphaël
  • Cinematography
    Grisey, Raphaël
  • Editing
    Grisey, Raphaël
  • Sound
    Grisey, Raphaël
  • Runtime
    30 min (16-30 min.)
  • Year
    2011
  • Country
    • Brazil
    • France
  • Format
    • Colour
    • Black & White
  • Distribution
  • Festivals
    • FID Marseille (2011)
    • Forumdoc, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2011)
    • Doclisboa (2011) Competition
    • Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin (2012)

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