Arthur Tuoto
Directing
Biography
Arthur Tuoto (1986) is a Brazilian filmmaker and film critic. His films and video installations has been screened at festivals and exhibitions such as Berlinale, BAFICI, Festival de Brasília, Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, Videonale, among many others.
Known For
From a selection of films excerpts, the video features isolated characters seeking comfort in an always unattainable ideal.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily
Ingrid Savoy, a Brazilian celebrity set to take part in a reality show, spends her days confined to a hotel room. Amid premonitory visions, a paparazzi invasion, and anarchist terrorist attacks bursting across the city, the artist lives the constant imminence of a scandal.
The Whispers that Killed Me
A candidate for reelection as president of Brazil prepares to communicate a right of reply, with his advisor trying to help him. But it seems that things are not going well with the politician's mind and speech.
O CANDIDATO
A TV signal reveals an experience of shock and delight.
Transcommunication
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Hunger
A sensory journey that over the course of hours, passes through crises. The constant non-communicability, even so, conceals carnal desire by the two human beings.
Arid Hearts
Two shots from the movie "Le diable probablement" (1977), by Robert Bresson, are repeated in a loop, creating a cyclic and endless raccord.
Je Proclame la Destruction
Pedro is gone and Amanda must deal with his absence.
The Last Portrait
The film shows images captured through a window at the same time that, in the background, the filmmaker talks to a friend who was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital.
Essay for a Surveillance Video
Composed of images of the actress Lindsay Lohan being photographed by paparazzi, the work builds a visual experience of flashes, lights and pixels.
The Lindsay Lohan Experience
Experimental film shot by cellphone.
Buda
A bus crosses a border.
Fronteira
The existential crisis of the image haunting humanity.
O Fim da Imagem
Experimental video shot on Mini DV.
Pathway
A dialogue from the movie "J'entends plus la guitare" (1991), by Philippe Garrel, is the starting point for a reflection on the immateriality of cinema and its mimetic dimension.
Dead Hands
Audiovisual notes on the individual and the state. The film utilizes various forms of found material to create an association between verbal and audiovisual quotes which explores historical concepts of cinema, art and politics.
Don’t Talk To Me About New Beginnings
Experimental film shot on a cellphone.
Tainah
Using a dialogue from the film Stalker (1979), by Andrei Tarkovski, as a starting point, the work is a free reflection on music and its primal potentiality.
Death of an Equal
A shadow questions itself about its shapes.
Shapeless
Three shots from the movie "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975), by Chantal Akerman, are placed side by side through a cyclic re-editing, revealing a trapped character in a panel of absent spaces.