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Aperana Street 52

5.2 80 mins Documentary   2012
TB Produções  
Director(s): Júlio Bressane

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,

Casts of Aperana Street 52

Joel Barcellos

as Self

Fernando Eiras

as Self

Giulia Gam

as Self

Drica Moraes

as Self

Caetano Veloso

as Self

Chico Buarque

as Self

Selton Mello

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Gilberto Gil

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