Juca

Fourth chapter of the "Atlas", "The Crystallization of Brasília" explores the ideia of the future as a petrified past. In an accelerated geological time, centuries crystallize in a few months in the form of a city. This process is driven by the force of mystical rationalism, who has the power to embalm ideas and social structures so that they last forever.

A woman's blunt testimony as she narrates her experience of violence and trauma before and after her time in prison clashes against the landscape behind her, which epitomizes the many other layers of violence that she endured. While looking at the camera, the woman plays tarot cards for humanity (and to ourselves, who watch her as if her counter-plan, as if were asking the cards) and reveals news of the end of the world. Of this world. "If the sky falls on our heads, that's where we shall live."

Lavina retires and buys a house in a small city in the middle of a Brazilian savanna. Not even grass could grow on the degraded soil of the backyard. So she starts to plant an agroforestry garden offering each seedling to a loved one who passed away.

Claudia lives in a quiet neighborhood with her pet, Max, the crocodile. In her daily life, Claudia divides her time between her work and her home, Max when alone at home find ways to go out and interact with the neighborhood.