Illuminations

Category: fiction
(Color-NTSC / 12 min. / Brazil - 2003)

Synopsis: Illuminations tells a story about two dancers who experience their bodies in a process of creation, while a painter is in existential and artistic conflict with himself.  Under an Impressionist photography, the painting and the dance lie in the unconsciousness of the characters, who come alive in a poetic and narrative context, enriched with poems by Fernando Pessoa.

"Old sailors had a glorious phrase:
Sailing is essential; living is not essential.
I want the spirit of this phrase for me.

Living is not necessary; creating is necessary.
Even if I have to use my body and my voice
As a means of sustaining this fire."
(Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian poet)

Production: Goulart Filmes
Executive producer: Marcelo Nigri
Producers: Ivy Goulart and Marcelo Nigri
Director and screenwriter: Ivy Goulart
Assistant director: Thiago Magalhães
Director of photography: Ivy Goulart
Camera operator: Ivy Goulart and Thiago Magalhães
Editing: Antonia Gama and Telma Cunha
Choreographers and dancers: João Paulo Gross and Marcelo Nigri
Actor and painter: Alexandre Rudáh
Music: Felipe Rocha and Carles Fontova
Art designer: Luciane Nard
Translation: Marcelo Nigri

Screenings

Showings:

• Brazilian Endowment for the Arts – Goulart’s Films (New York, May 2008);
• Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (BACI) – Goulart’s Films (Washington, DC, January 2008);
• Cena Rio – Partnerships (Rio de Janeiro, December 2004).

Festivals:

• Brazilian Cutting Edge Festival (London, April 2006);
• Brazilian View Film Fest (London, October 2005);
• MOVE Videodance Festival (Rio de Janeiro, October 2004);
• 9th Brazilian University Film Festival – Competitive Showing (Rio de Janeiro, June 2004).

TV:

• UTV – Gama Films (Rio de Janeiro, June 2004).

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