Gabriela Augusto
Directing
Biography
Director and screenwriter. I grew up in turmoil, but always preferred silence—where I found words. I feel that art guides me, as if it were voicing dreams, the unspoken, the unconscious. For me, cinema is a dive into mystery and search. It is living on the edge of feeling. I let words and images find me, just as I find myself in them. That’s how they are born. That’s how I was born.
Known For
In a lonely apartment, the landline phone lives its life untouched, haunted by memories of the past and the struggle to adapt to new technologies. In its anguish, it longs for a call that never comes.
Telephone
The city is a contested space. Shot on Kodak’s Super 8 TRI-X black-and-white film, 'The Body of the City' is a video art piece that offers unexpected answers to how the body can relate to the urban landscape. The film was screened at the Super 8 International Film Festival at the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP) in 2023.
The Body of the City
An experimental, visual, and poetic study about bodies, stitches, and repair. A sensory exploration of fragmentation and reconstruction. The body, real or symbolic, is treated as a surface to be opened, sutured, and reimagined. Using textures, objects, and silent rituals, the film contemplates the tension between vulnerability and resilience, between decay and the desire to mend. It is not about narrative, but about sensation. Not about answers, but about the act of touching what is broken.