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Footage of Yuri Gagarin's visit to Brazil in 1961.
In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.
Works on Rua Farani, reception of the Cuban ambassador and Dom Jaime Câmara, day of scouting, nakedness of the employees of the Guanabara Palace. Film 16mm, PB, silent. Directed by Esdras Baptista, 1961. LUPA-UFF collection.
