30 YEARS: Marcelo Machado | 18th Festival
The director Marcelo Machado recounts the beginnings of production company Olhar Eletrônico, whose pioneering work in the 1980s gave voice to common citizens, something then unheard of in Brazilian TV news programs
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30 YEARS: José Celso Martinez Corrêa | 18th Festival
The theater director José Celso Martinez reminisces on the work of group Uzina Uzona in the 1980s, as they appropriated the new language of video to express themselves amidst the dying breaths of the dictatorship regime
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30 YEARS: Fernando Meirelles | 18th Festival
The director Fernando Meirelles revisits the early years of his production with the company Olhar Eletrônico, in the 1980s, when both video and the Festival were in their beginnings
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John Wyver | 7th Festival
A statement from Britain’s John Wyver on the production company Illuminations, on occasion of his workshop at the Festival
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Eder Santos | 7th Festival
Artist’s statement on the video installation Oremos (Let Us Pray), featured in the Festival program
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Thomaz Farkas | 7th Festival
A statement from the Festival’s patron on the changes seen in video productions in the late 1980s
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Solange Farkas: Three decades of history
The director of Videobrasil discusses the history of the Festival. Her statement is part of a program of the Videobrasil on TV season, produced in partnership with SESC TV
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