Entretempos at 36th Mostra
Documentary film directed by Henri Gervaiseau, produced by CEM is exhibit at Sao Paulo International Film Festival
The documentary ENTRETEMPOS (2011, 98 min.), directed by Henri Arraes Gervaiseau and produced by Centre for Metropolitan Studies was selected to participate at the 36th Sao Paulo International Film Festival. The documentary was produced with the support of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). It is a production of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies. The film was exhibited on October 19, 22 and 30, 2012.
The Festival takes place in many theaters in the city of Sao Paulo between October 19 and November 1st 2012.
Entretempos was filmed in Cidade Tiradentes, neighborhood of periphery side of Sao Paulo, between 2006 and 2011.
The documentary aims to recover, in a poetic way, the trajectory of the collective members of the Association of Mutirão Paulo Freire, which in the course of ten years built, in a system of self-managed collective effort, in partnership with an NGO, a housing estate for hundred families in Cidade Tiradentes, in the east side of Sao Paulo.
To develop the housing project and monitor its performance, the Association, affiliated with the Movement of Landless East 1, had the support of the advisory of the Usina (Work Center for Ambient Inhabited ).
The narrative follows the long process of construction of the building, from obtaining the land to the housing, showing the difficulties encountered along the way, particularly with the public authorities, and pausing on the trajectories of some characters. The action is dramatically focused on a set familiarly called Paulo Freire, the result of bold architectural project designed by the team of architects of Usina, in partnership with the Association.
The exposition of the experience lived by the collective members has as background the transformations in Brazilian society since the end of the 80s until today.
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Entretempos
Entretempos | Ficha Técnica
- Brazil | 2011 | 98 min | Documentary
- Director | Henri Arraes Gervaiseau
- Company Producer | CEBRAP / CEM - Centre for Metropolitan Studies - Audiovisual
- Producer | Camilla Cardoso e Chica Mendonça
- Steering Assistence | Chico Toledo
- Script | Daniel Chaia, Danilo del Valle and Henri Arraes Gervaiseau
- Argument | Luis Felipe Labaki and Henri Arraes Gervaiseau
- Photography | Bassanelli Humberto Jr., Jacob Solitrenick and Marcos Yoshizaki
- Montage | Danilo del Valle and Henri Arraes Gervaiseau
- Sound | Rene Brasil and Marcos Yoshizaki
Biography and filmography
Henri Arraes Gervaiseau is a filmmaker, professor and researcher. Entretempos (2011) is his third documentary, after Retrato de Grupo (2009) and Em Trânsito (2007). Henri teaches history of cinema in the Department of Film, Television and Radio of the School of Communications and Arts, University of Sao Paulo (USP) and is a associate researcher of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies. Author of numerous essays and articles about film documentary, Henri is releasing a book on cinema as a mean of expression of the passage of time, titled O abrigo do tempo (Alameda, Sao Paulo, 2012). Several of his films won awards at festivals in Brazil and abroad. Henri is currently president of the Association Vídeo nas Aldeias.
Resumed filmography | Henri Arraes Gervaiseau
- Entretempos (2011);
- Retrato de grupo (2009);
- Moro na Tiradentes (2008);
- Em trânsito (2007);
- Terra prometida (1997);
- Tem que ser baiano? (1994).
