I am

Direction
Renato Albuquerque de Oliveira
Year of publication
2018
Duration
11'
Synopsis

Chaos and tranquility. Material and spiritual. Felinto transcends these universes by proposing, through music, introspection through the beauty of sound frequencies.
In this film, directed by Renato Albuquerque de Oliveira as a result of his scientific initiation research, supervised by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and produced through the extension course “Documentário de Criação”, taught by Carolina Caffe, we see Felinto's ideas about how the agency of music can influence the psychic and spiritual states of the human being, as a way of opposing the chaotic rhythm of São Paulo. Music, as this performer suggests, would be something like a river that flows in the opposite direction to the river that is the ethos of the city where he lives, functioning as a therapeutic tool against the anxiety generated by the way of life that unfolds there.

NTSC, color, 11 min, 2018
Direction and screenplay: Renato Albuquerque de Oliveira
Sound and production: Luiza Fernandes
Photography and editing/editing: Rodrigo Assakawa
Music track: Felinto
Additional images: Carolina Caffé, Luiza Fernandes, Renato Albuquerque de Oliveira
Support: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP)

Emphasis:
- Honorable mention at the Mariza Corrêa Prize for Visual Anthropology, 2018