Sonia Guggisberg

Sonia Guggisberg presents the documentary Subsolo, about the work interrupted in the 1970s below Avenida Paulista.

The short film “Partir” is a documentary organized by layers of time. Assembled with old files, images and music, Partir shows the story of a family. Current images of the demolition of a property, family heritage, are joined to archives in super-8 recorded by the father, in the seventies, and assembled with a soundtrack with lyrical songs performed by the mother between the 1970s and 2005. Between the scenes demolition, children play and dance with their mother's songs, recorded inside the house.

A dialogue between Ruth's childhood memories and the reports of her father, an evangelical pastor, brings to light details of the story of a resident of the peripheral community of Ceilândia (DF), marked by the violence she suffered from men in her life. Mother of 4 children, Ruth lives with her elderly father, admires him as a pastor but not as a father. His father, known as Zé, recovered from alcoholism and found salvation in the evangelical church. His greatest asset is his certainties and teachings based on the Bible, principles that he tried to follow blindly and pass on, in his own way, to his family. A Fine Line reports deep contrasts between Ruth and the pain of being a woman.