First Portrait

On a construction site in São Paulo, Leonardo, a young worker, starts to hear a strange sound coming from the ground.

A surveyor maps landslide risk areas in the city of Ubatuba, in a hillside region of the Atlantic Forest. Obsessed with measuring and organizing, he encounters a landscape of chaotic human occupation and ongoing conflicts. The city’s history crosses his path, and through his theodolite, he begins to see images of the past.

A day at work.

A free-flowing river projects its own images.

The river goes up the mountain