Paris, France (Milwaukee Premiere)
Carlos Segundo was born in São Paulo. He holds a doctorate in cinema and a master's degree in psychoanalysis. He teaches at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and founded the Brazilian production company, O sopro do tempo. His filmography includes Fendas, a feature debut (FID Marseille 2019), and the shorts, from time to time I burn (FID Marseille 2020), Sideral (Cannes Official Competition 2021) and Big Bang (premiered at Locarno in September 2022.
Director Statement:
I wrote and shot Big Bang a few months after the premiere of my last short film Sideral in July 2021 at the Cannes Film Festival. These two films are closely linked and echo each other from a conceptual and narrative point of view. Big Bang is a continuation of a filmography marked by the desire to talk about ordinary people, on the margins of society, through satire and reverie. I see in their presentation of these small stories a powerful performative potential. When Sideral told the story of a cleaning lady who escapes her daily life by infiltrating the first manned rocket launched in Brazil, Big Bang tells the story of a marginalized character's revolt against an exploiting and dominating elite.
But it is above all the humor that unites these two films, and the desire to seize a genre-the space film or B-movie-to explore unusual situations in the service of a strong political message. I also find the freedom to get my characters to perform actions that border on the believable. I verge on the surreal without ever completely tipping over into the fantastic.
Running Time: 14 minutes
Block 1: September 8th, 6:30PM
Drama
Block 1: September 8th, 6:30PM
Drama
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In Uberlandia, Brazil, Chico earns his living fixing ovens, in which he easily fits into thanks to his small size. Marginalized by a system that values him as a misfit, he begins to start resisting it.
Director Statement:
I wrote and shot Big Bang a few months after the premiere of my last short film Sideral in July 2021 at the Cannes Film Festival. These two films are closely linked and echo each other from a conceptual and narrative point of view. Big Bang is a continuation of a filmography marked by the desire to talk about ordinary people, on the margins of society, through satire and reverie. I see in their presentation of these small stories a powerful performative potential. When Sideral told the story of a cleaning lady who escapes her daily life by infiltrating the first manned rocket launched in Brazil, Big Bang tells the story of a marginalized character's revolt against an exploiting and dominating elite.
But it is above all the humor that unites these two films, and the desire to seize a genre-the space film or B-movie-to explore unusual situations in the service of a strong political message. I also find the freedom to get my characters to perform actions that border on the believable. I verge on the surreal without ever completely tipping over into the fantastic.
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