"Reminscence" (1909-26) is a Family movie of own Aristides Junqueira's family, archive from Brazilian film libraries. This movie shows unknown histories and points of view about, like a film essay with archives, family scenes, film footage, interviews and voice over to show a biography of a pioneer of Brazilian Cinema.
"Reminiscence" (1909-26) is a Family movie of own Aristides Junqueira's family, archive Brazilian film libraries. This movie shows unknown histories and points of view, like a film essay with archives, family scenes, film footage, interviews and voice over to show a biography of a pioneer of Brazilian Cinema
LARGE SYNOPSESA documentary feature film about Research and looking for families meanings, biographies, historic and actual interpretations of the images of the Aristides Junqueira's first movies (1879-1952).
He was one of pioneers of Brazilian cinema, author of dozens silence and sound movies made in almost regions of Brazil since 1907 until 1946. However, most of his archive is lost.
"Reminscence" is a Family movie of own Aristides Junqueira's family made since 1909 until 1926 in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, located in the center of Brazil. It is the only of survivor movie, recognized for researchers, and film archives the older preserved Brazilian movie. This movie became known only 1970, and nowadays, most of stories and point of view about it is unknown. This documentary film discovered news histories through a big process of research with his relatives, family archives, and public film archives.
As a film essay, this documentary film blend different languages and resources from classical and modern documentary film, like interviews, voice-over, archive's documents, family scenes, film footage, movie projections on the city and resources of editing.
