Directing
Filmed in Amazonas in 2021, on Estrada Fantasma BR-319, Transamazônica BR-230 and in the real city of Realidade, “Curupira and the Machine of Destiny” documents the encounter in the present time between a curupira and the incarnate ghost of Iracema, a character in the movie “Iracema – an amazon sex”. Open as wounds during the civic-military dictatorship that entangled Brazil in the cries of order and progress, the asphalt rebars that crisscross the country were built, destroyed and are now drowning in a process of reconstruction. Warm ruins of an addicted future. In love, Iracema ghost sets off at the crossroads of the straight roads of the Amazon to find Curupira and avenge the future.
A spell breaking, Quebrante traverses the caves, ruins and phantasmagorias of the Transamazon BR230 Highway, portraying its stones and its ghosts. Set in tiny RurĂłpolis, the very first town ever built on the road, Quebrante follows Ms. Erismar, a retired elementary school teacher known in the region as The Cave Woman.
We know the figure of the werewolf, half-human, half- beast, a creature shaped by mankind as a scapegoat to give contour to cruel acts perpetrated by humanity through the course of history. Unfolding the points of view, an essay film as an inquiry.
Closing Janaina Wagner’s trilogy on the BR-230 Transamazonica Road phantasmagoria, When the second sun arrives / A comet in your eyes unfolds traversing a day when the Road stones, the remains of fallen comets and meteors, would depart back to the sky, countering cosmic time with everyday life along the highway.
