The Art and the Street

Direction
Carolina Caffé and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
Year of publication
2011
Duration
44'
Synopsis

Cidade Tiradentes, in the far eastern district of São Paulo, place where the city ends, in the words of Daniel Hylario, our narrator. From there, come rhymes, colours, and gestures which mark the space. For the artists of Cidade de Tiradentes, their experience of the urban periphery provides both the basis and motivation for their works. These projects dialogue with the challenges and dreams of this São Paulo district that grew as the artists themselves grew up. The film follows the life and transformations of street dance, graffiti and rap in this area, which is thought to be the largest social housing complex in Latin America. In this place, marked by exclusion, the population manages their difficulties with their own particular dynamics of sociability, housing and appropriation of territory.

Ficha técnica: NTSC, color, 44 min, 2011
Direction, research and script: Carolina Caffé and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
Assembly and Assembly script: Douglas Guedes and Karine Binaux
Director of Photography Rafael Nobre
Handycam and local production direction: Daniel Hylario
Production: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP); Pólis Institute and W.S. Productions
Support: Etnodoc - Notice of Support for Ethnographic Documentaries on Intangible Heritage; FAPESP
Research projects: Sociocultural Cartovideography of Cidade Tiradentes: cidadetiradentes.org.br

Realization: Instituto Pólis
Support: Spain Cultural Center_SP

Thematic Project “Anthropology of Performance: Drama, Aesthetics and Ritual”.
Support: FAPESP
Thematic project “The experience of film in Anthropology”
Support: FAPESP

http://www.usp.br/ladoleste/la_do_leste.html