Known for Directing
Gledson is a lonely worker who left his hometown with the dream of becoming an actor in Rio de Janeiro. Tormented by vague memories of his past, he sees his life change when he begins to write a book about Teresa, a prostitute who goes through death expecting a child and ends up on a fantastic island. When a friend of Gledson decides to turn his book into a film, reality and fiction mix: while Teresa has to decide what to do with the child born on the island and the writer deals with the challenge of becoming a creator, the film changes when the director confronts the experience of her own motherhood.
In the face of images that are transfigured, inside a mushroom of an explosion already begun, the narration of a rude Latin American poem tells occurrences and impressions of the sixties, seventies and eighties in Brazil and Latin America, with some memory failures. The film was made from the technique of direct animation in the film.
A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.
The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen.
