Fábio Baldo e Tico Dias
Fábio Baldo e Tico Dias
2020, 20min, BR
Fábio Baldo e Tico Dias
2020, 20min, BR
O Jardim Fantástico
O Jardim Fantástico
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An indigenous teacher implements the use of Ayahuasca in her classes in order to connect her students to another reality. During a ritual, one of the children comes upon a weird gear in the forest. From https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6146158/ |
Director: Fábio Baldo, Tico Dias
Screenplay: Fábio Baldo, Raymundo Calumby
Producer: Lara Lima, Issis Valenzuela, Fábio Baldo
Executive Producer: Lara Lima
Production Manager: Issis Valenzuela
Cinematographer: Ivan Rodrigues
Art Director: Fernanda Carlucci
Sound Recordist: Gustavo Zysman Nascimento
Sound Designer: Fábio Baldo
Special Effects: Carlos Eduardo Nogueira
Editor: Douglas Soares, Fábio Baldo
Sound Editor: Fábio Baldo
Cast: Thaia Perez, Roberto Alencar, Ana Pereira, Ellen Regina, Yasmin Faquet, Eliza Keiko, Nina Eugênio Flores, Jullia Cosmo, Pedro Henrique Lima, Marcelo Gobbis, Leonardo Lovantino, Manuella Zanotto, Betina Costa, Gabriel Hector, Mário Oliveira Jesus, Zahy Guajajara, Luiz Felipe Jesus
Sales Agent: Fábio Baldo
Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro – Special Jury Mention
Aesthetica Short Film Festival (Reino Unido)
Dotdotdot Open Air de Viena (Áustria)
Festival de Cinema de Vitória
Festival Internacional de Cinema de Riga (Letônia)
Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Bali (Indonésia)
Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Oberhausen (Alemanha)
Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de São Paulo (Kinoforum)
Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Uppsala (Suécia)
Festival Kinoarte Semana Paulistana do Curta Metragem
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Suíça)
MOSCA - Mostra Audiovisual de Cambuquira
Mostra Cinema do Presente Curta Taquary
Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
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Fábio Baldo is a Brazilian director and writer. His first feature film Time Was Endless (2016) had its premiere at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama). He has directed the award-winner short films Caos (2010), Da Origem (2011), É Tudo Lágrima (2013) and Geru (2014), selected by important international film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Kiev-Molodist, Moscow, Bilbao-Zinebi, Montreal and Guadalajara. He is currently developing his second feature-film project "Sweet Hell Throughout the Galaxy", selected for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum (San Sebastian International Film Festival) and for the Novas Histórias Laboratory of Sesc. The project has part of its funding secured by the development fund of SPCine and will be distributed by Vitrine Filmes, in Brazil. In 2015, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris held a retrospective of his films. From https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4091100/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm / FILMOGRAPHY Caos - (2010, 15min) |
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Tico Dias is a director and actor, known for É Tudo Lágrima (2013), Geru (2014) and O Jardim Fantástico (2020). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4093353/?ref_=tt_ov_dr FILMOGRAPHY É Tudo Lágrima - Fábio Baldo e Tico Dias (2013, 23min) |
Crédito da foto: Fábio Baldo |
 - O Jardim Fantástico (Cred.jpg)
 - O Jardim Fantástico (Cred.jpg)
The idea for the film was born from my first experience in an Ayahuasca ritual. What struck me most was that the ritual was also open to children. They took a very small dose of the tea and actively participated in the activities. It was such a powerful experience for me that I wondered how a child could understand these altered states of consciousness. Months later, I began to research the use of Ayahuasca as a form of knowledge transmission and how it better developed the space of imagination for cultural and social construction within some indigenous cultures. The idea was to make a film that discussed the political power of imagination in a world that increasingly prevents us from dreaming, from designing things for a future. At the same time, it could raise questions about the cultural erasure of certain minorities. What most inspired me in the process of creating the script was the book A Queda do Céu, / The Fall of the sky, by Davi Kopenawa, and the film O Abraço da Serpente / Embrace Of The Serpent, by Ciro Guerra.
Screenplay “O Jardim Fantástico”
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CRITIC by Filippo Pitanga - Almanaque Virtual
CRITIC by Jorge Cruz Jr. - Apostila de Cinema Mostra Tiradentes
CRITIC by Francisco Carbone - Cenas de Cinema
CRITIC by Bruno Carmelo - Papo de Cinema https://www.papodecinema.com.br/filmes/o-jardim-fantastico/
Review by Pedro Bournoukian - Website Letterboxd
GUEST WORK
GUEST WORK
4 Bilhões de Infinitos
by Marco Antônio Pereira (2020, 14min, MG)
Viewer's Discretion - FREE
Sinopsis: Brazil. 2020. A family lives with their electricity having been cut off. While the mother works, her children stay at home talking about having hope.
JUSTIFICATION
4 Bilhões de Infinitos / 4 billion infinites was one of my big surprises in the field of short films in 2020. I already knew the cinema of Marco Antônio Pereira and I found his creative freedom in proposing images loaded with allegories that often evoke the narrative artifice itself impressive. I feel that this last short has many links with O Jardim Fantástico / the fantastic garden. They are two films that start from the children's universe to discuss the transforming power of imagination. The final scene of 4 Bilhões de Infinitos, where children wait for the projection of an image on a white bedsheet, creates an interesting rhyme with the final scene of O Jardim Fantástico, where the boy points his camera to a Chroma Key sleeping bag, waiting for the green to be filled with other worlds in the future. These two films embrace the idea that thinking about a future today is having the possibility to dream.