Production
Inspired by the masterpiece of concrete music "Symphony for one man" Pierre Henry (1950), the film tells the story of a common man leaving the interior of Brazil to try life in São Paulo. The city, in its perpetual process of construction and deconstruction view from the microcosm of a construction site, its workers and a profusion of machines in full swing. The metaphysical revolt of this character is the revolt against his condition and against everything that humiliates him.
Elza is a retired teacher who, after her husband’s death, finds herself alone and isolated. In search of a new way to live, she begins exploring her neighborhood and, by chance, joins a theater class. From that moment on, she immerses herself in the transformative power of art.
Henrique is a filmmaker who has made films that hardly anyone saw. A marginal for lack of choice.
In 1835, the revolt known as Cabanagem began in the province of Grão-Pará (Brazil), in which blacks, indigenous people, and mestizos rose up against the political elite and took power. The documentary Cuipiranga is a quest to record the testimonies of the descendants, in the lower Tapajós region, of this revolt that is considered the first popular insurrection that went from simple agitation to an effective seizure of power.
Between the light and the dark of the projection rooms, there is a professional little known by the cinema audience: the projectionist. Based on the microcosm of a projection room, the documentary records the routine of these workers, who have a long and lonely workday.
