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I DON'T BELIEVE IN A GOD THAT DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DANCE
If we take from Nietzsche the inspiration for the title of this program, it
is from the sound of Caetano Veloso that these films invite the god of
Zarathustra to dance. More specifically, the song that, exactly fifty years
ago, at the dawn of one of the most violent periods in Brazilian history,
and marking the beginning of the Tropicália movement, pointed to a
breach of existence, perhaps the only possible existence "between the
legs, flags, and teeth, under a sun of crimes and faces of presidents"1.
If history repeats itself as a farce, let us continue, once again, "with our
eyes full of vain loves, why not?"1. Joy is the proof of the pudding.2
1 Allusion to the lyrics of Caetano Veloso's "Alegria, Alegria" (1967)
2 Allusion to Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto antropofágico (1928)
CURATED BY
PATRÍCIA MOURÃO
Patricia Mourão holds a PhD in film from
Universidade de São Paulo, with a sandwich
scholarship at Columbia University. She has
programmed exhibitions in Brazil and abroad,
among them: Intégrale Andrea Tonacci
(Cinéma du Réel, 2017), Visões da Vanguarda
(CCBB, 2016), Cinema Estrutural (Caixa
Cultural, 2015) and Jonas Mekas (CCBB, 2013).
She also teaches at IMS, MASP, MAM-SP and
Instituto Tomie Ohtake.
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