Eduardo Souza

The video-dance “Sombra da Ausência” is the result of Patrícia Vital's scholarship for creation and experimentation in dance at the Instituto de Artes do Pará, and is based on the poem of the same name by Antônio Moura.

More than 10 years of research, several trips and visits to museums, film libraries, libraries, public and private collections, and a tireless work of footage and interviews, a film that tells the pre-cinema's history in Brazil, especially in the Amazon, with the city of Belém as the protagonist of this surprising story in an unexpected scenario.