Ana Julia Travia

I recorded four years of the life of a great friend of mine in the attempt to catch some sort of catharsis. As I tried to deal with endings that were taking place in my life, the inevitable happened to him. His mother passed away without leaving any record on video. This is a movie to refrain from the fear of forgetting.

Constructed as part of the dramaturgical structure of the play Black Brecht: what if Brecht were black?, presented by Coletivo Legítima Defesa in 2019, this film/video-intervention makes use of editing, internet content and the powerful sound performance of Roberta Estrela D 'Allow to expose the plunder of the territories of the Global South by the countries of the Global North.

Province of São Paulo, 1870. An enslaved man flees through a dense forest in search of a supposed quilombo. On his heels are two "capitães-do-mato" with orders to capture him at all costs. But the forest, in its depths, harbors mysteries and ghosts capable of surrounding them in a trap.

In 1992, during a meeting held at the family estate in the interior of Minas Gerais, all young heirs of the Baumann family mysteriously disappeared. The event is revisited by filming and old photographs, hoping to reconstitute his last days and solve the case.