Night in Motion

Adventure starts here

A natural study on the motorcycles fauna in São Paulo at the beginning of Covid19 pandemic. Filmed in the early fall 2020, this is Claudio Szynkier's first formal experience with cinema, music and the city. The film is a short musical effort, developed and improvised along a post-quarantine afternoon ride.

Just before the Covid surge, a tour through futuristic carnivals of antiquity and the latest versions of things in São Paulo before the outbreak. Cars, bicycles and vehicles powered by petrochemicals still take one last ride in normality. In another parallel world, Carnival takes place in its various forms.

It's been two years since Suzana lost someone. She finds it hard to let it go.

A woman recalls memories of a gone lover.

Apparitions, mystical presences and lost stories from São Paulo and Rangoon are discovered over the course of a summer in the future. São Paulo spots are visited by people from the same family in 1991 and then around 30 or 40 years later. Meanwhile, family archives and memories in Tropical America and in Magical Asia are revealed.