The recovery of family videos is the resumption of a path: the massification of VHS brought new levels to family recordings. With the incorporation of sound, home videos gave way to commentaries, speeches and the filtering of sounds, giving rise to a documentation of the sounds of each era. In this first-person film, Juliana Antunes revisits, reframes and recombines the discordances between norm and desire in the memories of an LGBT girl in a Brazilian suburb.
Editing
Antunes stitches VHS artifacts into queer testimony — glitch as poetics.
Direction
First-person excavation of suburban Brazil rarely seen on screen.
Director
Juliana Antunes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Brazilian filmmakers using personal archives to counter official histories of the family-centric dictatorship era. The VHS boom coincided with democratization — home video as accidental resistance.
Antunes shot her first feature 'Baronesa' in the same Minas Gerais suburbs; this short functions as its ghostly prequel.
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