Fábio Rodrigues Filho

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.

The documentary investigates the first steps of artistic resistance by the black actresses from Bahia of the Bando de Teatro Olodum group, which emerged in the 90's, and redefines, through documentary and fictional procedures, the contrast between official discourses and oral discourses from the perspective of these women.

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