Cachoeira

After dying from a brain disease, a bourgeois young woman joins an angel obsessed with the apocalypse, while a Portuguese tourist pesters a religious Uber driver who just picked him up from the airport.

Color, sound, 16mm, Double 8mm, 8mm transfer to digital.

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.

We began to make our way toward the restricted areas along the banks of the Pinheiros and Tietê rivers. We climbed over the highway walls. We looked at the river and made up stories. A palace is about to collapse among its fountains.

A day at work.