TUDO E BRASIL
(ALL IS BRAZIL)
Dir. Rogério Sganzerla, 1998
82 mins. Brazil
In Portuguese with English subtitles.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 – 10 PM

"The exchange between an underdeveloped cinema and an overdeveloped cinema may produce a conflict, a dialectic, an energy.” - Rogério Sganzerla

"He wanted perfection..."

The third entry in Sganzerla’s saga concerning Orson Welles and his trip to the southern continent, TUDO E BRASIL finds Sganzerla streamling his schizoid investigations into the historical makeup of Brazilian contemporary culture into an essay film format that at once masks the filmmaker’s direct voice, rather opting to allow his discourse to be constructed through the assemblage of found material. All the footage and audio in the film is archival, but Sganzerla’s sly techniques of juxtaposition serve to both to cleave the unassuming veneer of these repurposed images from the oppressive dynamics that define Pan-American cultural and political relationships. Sganzerla’s relationship to Brazil and its cultural production is, as always, fraught with condemnation and embrace, reflecting Brazil’s own contradictory structure. Featuring appearances from Carmen Miranda, Grande Otelo, H.G. Wells, and of course, the other Welles, TUDO E BRASIL represents the more studious Sganzerla while retaining all of the obsessive maniacal vigor that characterizes his early fiction work.