04/07/2019
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Full Moons, Graveyards, Lost sons, Singing Mothers and Haunted Supermarkets land on Spamflix, in a selected filmography from the Brazilian collective Filmes do Caixote!
"Filmes do Caixote" headed by directors Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra and Caetano Gotardo have been working together since their academic years. Lack of funds and the need to practice led to this joint artistic foray where they inspired each other's cinematographic language and style. Since its official creation in 2006, the collective has delivered successful short films. And thus over the years, the three directors kept working on each other's projects, such is the case of Marco Dutra's composer credit in Necropolis Symphony and The Moving Creatures (in which Juliana Rojas also acted as the editor) or Caetano Gotardo's editor credit in Good Manners and Hard Labor.
Through their poetical visual imaginary, that features supernatural elements, musical storytelling, undramatic dialogues and everyday life characters, they are able to picture brazilian contemporary society and deliver a powerful social commentary stressing among other things, issues of inclusion.
Available titles on Spamflix:
Good Manners (2017)
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny of her unborn child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night changes their plans.
Necropolis Symphony (2014)
Deodato is an apprentice gravedigger at a cemetery in Sao Paulo. His uncle – the chief gravedigger - tries to sensitize him to the function, but it is useless: the job afflicts Deodato. When the number of vacant tombs starts to run out, Jaqueline - an officer from the city’s Funerary Bureau - arrives at the cemetery. Deodato must help her to locate abandoned graves, but strange events make him think about the implications of tampering with the dead.
The Moving Creatures (2013)
Doppelgänger - short included as extra content in Necropolis Symphony (2012)
Hard Labor (2011)