About initial steps of the amateur cinema movement in Brazil. About the use of super-8 cinema to record domestic life, experimental films and political and social documentaries made in the streets.
Life and work of the artist, writer, journalist and alternative filmmaker Jorge O'Mourão. The first block shows its Super-8 works done in the 1970s; And the second reveals its current project of reconstruction and reconstruction of Loft at Lapa, a space that shook the cultural life thirty years ago.
Testimony by historian Jessie Jane who resisted the Brazilian military dictatorship. A super-8 film made by her friend Nelie, shown during the leaden years abroad, shows Jessie imprisoned with her husband and daughter born in the Talavera Bruce prison.
Aspects of Rio's urban life recorded on super-8 film. The episode is a walk through the characteristics of the city in the 70's and early 80's. The Metro construction works; Praça XV and its inebriated characters captured by chance; the fair in the neighborhood of Fátima; Avenida Rio Branco, the employed and unemployed beggars; the Church of Glória do Outeiro and popular faith; the soup line at Largo da Carioca Church; starving children who do not know if they survived those difficult years. Maracanã and the city's floods, buses, passers-by and traffic.
Images of the 1982 electoral process that led Leonel de Moura Brizola to the Rio de Janeiro State Government. Scenes of the campaign, inauguration and some political episodes of the period of restoration of democratic freedoms in the country. The case proconsult. In the end, in the same scenario as Guanabara Palace, Leonel Brizola would be veiled in 2004, ending his public career in a surprising way.
