A 16-minute poem about forgetting to remember what you lost.
Past and present gets mixed up in the mind of poetess Martha, when she bumps into memories she didn't remember she had forgot, regarding her time alongside the young student Elouise.
Direction
Brum treats memory like wet paint—smudging, bleeding, never drying.
Acting
Do Carmo carries decades of silence in one held breath.
Director
Felipe Brum
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brazilian short cinema has become a stealth vehicle for queer narratives too subtle for feature funding—this joins a growing wave of 'micro-queer' films.
The title's wordplay—'parede' as both wall and barrier—suggests memory isn't lost but walled off, brick by brick.
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