A GRANDE FEIRA
Dir. Roberto Pires, 1961
91min, Brazil
In Portuguese with English subtitles.
North American Premiere

SUNDAY – MAY 8 – 7:30pm
THURSDAY – MAY 12 – 7:30pm
SATURDAY MAY 14 – 10:00pm
SUNDAY MAY 22 – 5:00pm

Produced in the Água de Meninos market of Salvador and made with the assistance of Glauber Rocha, A Grande Feira is a neo-realist ensemble film featuring some of the biggest stars of Cinema Novo which include Spectacle goddess, Helena Ignez, Luiza Maranhão (also stars in BARRAVENTO), Antônio Pitanga, & Geraldo del Rey, who appears in all of Roberto Pires’ films from this era.

A Grande Feira is a political film of manners exploring the historical dialectic between capital and work in a stunning formalist verite.

Screening with:

VADIAÇàO
Dir. Alexandre Robatto Filho, 1954
8 mins, Brazil
In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Focusing on capoeira, Vadiação was previously storyboarded by artist Carybé. Its soundtrack preserves the typical chants and berimbau music which are part of that practice, as the film illustrates the evolution of capoeira, simultaneously a martial art and a dance.