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São Paulo, April 2020.

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Thief!

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Militian!

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Get out Bolsonaro!

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I share these images with you

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in an attempt to make you feel

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how things are around here.

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Get out!

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Thief!

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You're going to fall!

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Incompetent!

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Stupid!

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Incompetent!

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I miss our conversations
about cinema and politics.

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Bastard!

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Get out!

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You're gonna fall,
Bolsonaro!

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It's over for you!

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President Bolsonaro's
speech last night...

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regarding the 5000 Brazilian
deaths by Covid 19...

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continues to reverberate.

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President Bolsonaro's
declaration was last night,

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when Brazil surpassed the
death toll in China

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journalists questioned him about
the number of Covid 19 victims.

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Bolsonaro: But... So what?
I'm sorry, what do you want me to do?

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My name is Messias,
but I can't do miracles. (Laughs)

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Keep me posted, my friend.

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Love, Fernanda.

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May, 2020.

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My friend,

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I try to understand
this new country...

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where I recently arrived.

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I left Brazil under Bolsonaro

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to come to Trump's United States.

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I feel estranged, a foreigner

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from myself.

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But your letter helped me.

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I leave you with my window.

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Talk soon, Chica.

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So nice to see you, friend.

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Monday,

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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

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Here, I've been surrounding myself
with a feminine feminist.

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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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to escape the horror
of this world still ruled by men.

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I invite you to dive in with me.

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Your invitation

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is the only way I can
imagine to move myself.

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The repetition here
became a coreography.

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In the footsteps of the revolt
that took over the streets.

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In the circles...

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of those who look from above.

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Eyes that kill.

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And in the blasts of the
pugnacious uniform.

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We must move.

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I move in a dance
between us.

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Under our own rhythm.

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Amidst so much
death and violence.

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Swing and Sway

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A filmic dialogue between
Fernanda Pessoa and Chica Barbosa

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Our rules:

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2. Until the end of the year, we'll
communicate only through video-letters

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as an antidote to the
texting and calling apps.

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3. Each letter will be formally and/or thematically
inspired by a female experimental filmmaker

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3. Deadline to reply: 3 weeks.

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Inspired by:

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We keep on dancing.
A powerful and feminine dance.

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Like Carolee Schneemann and
some of these female filmmakers

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we are also heterosexual, and
in monogamous relationships.

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Carolee's films prompted me
to return to this issue.

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In the power dynamics
and the care work

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in this kind of relationship.

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Despite being surrounded
by women,

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to always share our everyday
and intimate life with a man.

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Especially in a time of forced
isolation, sharing life 24/7.

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Have you noticed that many of
them had male partners

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who became more
recognized than them?

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We are also women artists in relationships
with men who are artists.

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Do you ever think about this?

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I often think about it.

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Not as much today, as I feel I found
a balance in my current relationship.

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But I’m constantly afraid of being
overshadowed by a man.

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I know times have
changed since then.

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But have they really?

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Sometimes I feel
like they haven’t.

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My mother hasn’t left the house
in the past 100 days.

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I'm at the same age she was when
she gave birth to me.

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I can’t see myself
becoming a mother.

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She had a print of this
painting when I was little.

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I would see the three
Graces dancing everyday.

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When I saw my own nudity in a new perspective,
distanced by the eye of the camera...

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I remembered them.

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I don’t believe in witches,
but I know that I am one.

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Nice to meet you, body,
it’s a pleasure, body.

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Me inside my mom,
my mom inside my grandmother,

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my grandmother inside her mother,
inside, inside, inside...

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We keep on dancing.

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I start the scene
with my naked body,

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lying down in the
living room floor.

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Enjoying the end of
the morning sun.

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Next to me is a table with
smalls plants and a few paintings.

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To the side is the TV
and the couch.

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On the other side is the
front door to the house.

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Right in front of me
is the dining room.

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Behind me there’s a frame
I improvised with a lottery game.

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It’s a game that brings memories
of my childhood in Mexico.

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It’s a kind of bingo, but
with more interesting images.

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Such as “the brave one”, “the canoe”,

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“the cactus”, “the drunkard”,
"the world"

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“the death" and "the moon".

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Behind the camera
is Thiago.

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I’m surprised
he doesn’t question me

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for filming myself
naked for the first time.

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And I often recall what
you said in your last letter.

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In this situation, I directed
how I want the scene.

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How I want my body
to be recorded.

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And I don’t give
much explanation.

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Does this count?

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It was beautiful
to see you, friend.

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Your naked
body and soul.

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It made me think
of so many things.

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In how I keep myself
from opening my chest.

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As I assimilate every
oppression that limits me.

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This is Victoria.

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She works with film and has also
lived in many continents,

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She even lived for several
years in Mexico.

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She taught me that we are
the so-called “TCK”,

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"Third Culture Kids".

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Had you ever heard
this expression?

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I hadn't.

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No matter where I am,
I’ll always be a foreigner.

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We talked about the violent industry
of film as a commercial product.

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And how we miss
Mexican lands.

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Even if we are literally
living in one.

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I think a lot about everything
that has been imposed on us

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and the depriving nature
of cities.

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Home of the brave and land of
the free, as they say here.

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But where is the freedom?

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And who are the brave
in this Meca City?

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Today I noticed that there are 100 days
left to this country’s next election.

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Lately, only death.

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In spite of memories
of a peaceful death...

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that celebrates, revolutionary
and again, death,

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time of purification.

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Today I stripped
from my spirit

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all human hope.

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But in spite
of you, death...

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tomorrow will
be another day.

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STATE BORDER
PARANÁ / SÃO PAULO

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WELCOME TO PARANÁ
WORLD'S BIGGEST FOOD PRODUCER

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I’m not much of remembering
names of books, movies or artists.

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But Adelia Prado says something
like “I’m happy, sad, and barren”.

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But I could never really
define this “barren”.

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I looked it up
on the dictionary.

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So I think that I’m happy,
sad and instead of "barren"...

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I would say scarce.

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Which is
a better suited word.

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That’s Elem,
all three things.

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Maringá, Paraná
August, 2020

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I let my joy show more.
You know?

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My joy.

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And the rest is hidden,

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Inside a small box,
locked with a key.

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And I threw away the key.

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Elem,
my mother-in-law.

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And I’m happy like this,

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Because I’m happy
with small things.

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My bird's song.

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The kiskadee bird nest
over there.

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My children, my husband.

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My dog is named Dilma.

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And my Canary bird
was called Lula.

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But my sister, a Bolsonaro supporter, said

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“he can’t be Lula! He'll be called Inácio.”

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Fine.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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I named her Dilma
for the shock value.

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When I got there
and saw that little thing

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I said “Dilma, you’re
going to your Palace!”

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And the people there
were horrified.

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“But Dilma?”
“Yes, Dilma is going to the Palace.”

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I like Maringá.
I like this city.

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It really is a very, I would say,
conservative city.

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It’s really conservative,
you know?

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At first
I was very downcast.

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I was downcast because my sons
were in the eye of the storm.

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in São Paulo.

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I was very worried
about them.

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And my husband was defiant,
he didn't want to work from home.

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I felt very… We elderly grew
very old in 120 days.

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It was sad. Old people
don’t have to die.

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They shouldn't have to die in
a hospital corridor.

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Because an old person has
worked, fought, survived.

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But it’s 100.000 dead people.

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I cried a lot
in the beginning.

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Not that these lost lives
have become numbers.

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Or that
I've become used to it.

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But here’s the thing:

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At first, I was very sensitive.

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I'd cry at every new death.

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Really crying.
And I’m not one to cry.

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I only cry when things
really get tough, you know?

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"Respect for private property!
Our quest is for freedom."

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#we’re with Bolsonaro

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So I said “I have to
get a hold of myself”.

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This could evolve to a
depression or something.

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"The Supreme are the people"

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#we’re with Bolsonaro

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We don’t know who
made those billboards.

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It says it represents the
"people of Maringá," right?

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I’m not represented by it!

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In a pandemic, a president can't
march around without a mask.

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Or walk among the people
without a mask.

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"Democracy begins
by accepting election results."

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One of these days I saw a
street vendor without a mask.

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I said “good morning, mister.
Don't you wear a mask?”

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He answered “What’s it to you? My
president doesn’t wear one!”

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But his president is
also my president.

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So his president has
to respect me too!

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STOP LOOK LISTEN

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My grandmother is
from Jecudi, México,

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and my mother is
from Douglas, Arizona.

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Thugs from the MTST.

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your actions will be
typified as terrorism.

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Electing the JUNTAS Homeless Women
candidacy is an act of resistance!

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Vote for the collective
candidacy MTST 50400.

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JUNTAS
Homeless Women

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11 seconds sharp,
that's perfect.

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That's the right rhythm
to speak.

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Let's do one more,
but it's looking good.

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You're living in the city of the images
that pretend not to be political.

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And here, I create explicitly
political images.

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The flag, it looks beautiful.

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Yes, Jussara!

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I never thought about
working for a political campaign

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but now, during the first city
council elections since Bolsonaro

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it makes a lot of sense.

00:31:22.743 --> 00:31:23.969
Say something, Débora.

00:31:23.993 --> 00:31:25.493
Fernanda, can you hear me?

00:31:25.910 --> 00:31:28.701
Could one of you please
move the cow over there?

00:31:28.743 --> 00:31:30.660
Does anyone know
how to move a cow?

00:31:30.826 --> 00:31:32.618
Just to keep them
further away.

00:31:32.660 --> 00:31:33.743
The noise is too loud.

00:31:41.368 --> 00:31:42.993
Don't film that.

00:31:45.785 --> 00:31:46.785
Cow!

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This one's the worst.

00:31:49.618 --> 00:31:51.743
Those ones aren't
making that much noise.

00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:55.035
Wow! It's all of them!

00:31:55.618 --> 00:31:57.618
Move away, little cows!

00:31:58.535 --> 00:32:00.035
Move, cow.

00:32:01.201 --> 00:32:04.243
Recently, I had a dream

00:32:04.535 --> 00:32:08.868
that I stole the children
from one of them

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and I would only return them
after a few years.

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I then understood that
the children symbolized their images.

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In a way, that's how I feel,

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as if I have to borrow
the images and stories

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from these 3 women

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and transform them into a narrative
for São Paulo's progressive middle-class

00:32:59.993 --> 00:33:03.993
to elect them.

00:33:08.535 --> 00:33:10.618
We shall win!

00:33:10.743 --> 00:33:14.160
Faith in our fight!
We shall win!

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1, 2, 3...

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4, 5, 1000...

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Give us our house or
we'll stop Brazil!

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For a while now I've been

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wanting to show you these
women who inspire me

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but I didn't know how

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Leslie Thornton
helped me find a way

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and to understand:

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Let me know
when I can go ahead.

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You can go.

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It's not possible to capture
the other in their entirety.

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Or reduce them to one image.

00:34:31.118 --> 00:34:36.868
Something always escapes.

00:34:50.493 --> 00:34:55.285
Thursday morning.
September 3rd, 2020

00:34:58.243 --> 00:34:59.660
I accept Alice's invitation

00:35:00.118 --> 00:35:01.368
to escape to the desert,

00:35:01.868 --> 00:35:04.493
in search of some sanity
amid the emptiness.

00:35:09.035 --> 00:35:14.243
I travel with the images of the fortress
of these women you showed me.

00:35:15.118 --> 00:35:17.993
I see a future where
scoundrels and jerks,

00:35:18.285 --> 00:35:19.993
these tiny men,

00:35:20.285 --> 00:35:22.993
are assailed by
these immense women.

00:35:23.285 --> 00:35:25.993
Who are fighting
today and tomorrow.

00:35:34.410 --> 00:35:37.618
Curious how unwelcoming
this desert is.

00:35:45.201 --> 00:35:46.868
It’s over 40ºC out here.

00:35:47.326 --> 00:35:50.743
Yet, the Navajo land is
still being invaded.

00:35:51.243 --> 00:35:52.743
And colonized.

00:35:53.576 --> 00:35:55.826
I picture the Navajo women

00:35:56.368 --> 00:35:58.076
winning the battle

00:35:58.493 --> 00:36:00.993
against the yachts
that anchor in their lakes.

00:36:07.168 --> 00:36:09.408
And a ship with eight sails,

00:36:09.588 --> 00:36:11.194
and with fifty canons,

00:36:11.262 --> 00:36:12.462
will land on the docks...

00:36:12.618 --> 00:36:16.743
Friday afternoon,
September 10th.

00:36:17.118 --> 00:36:21.785
This is the first time I see a man
carrying a gun in this country.

00:36:22.993 --> 00:36:27.493
He was wearing a t-shirt that
read "Donald Trump Matters".

00:36:35.243 --> 00:36:39.118
It was then that I realized
the bubble that I live in.

00:36:39.660 --> 00:36:41.035
"Commiefornia"

00:36:41.243 --> 00:36:43.618
California,
filled with communists,

00:36:44.243 --> 00:36:46.660
as believed by many
who live around here.

00:36:46.910 --> 00:36:47.910
Here,

00:36:48.368 --> 00:36:50.410
these abandoned parts
of the country.

00:36:51.868 --> 00:36:56.368
Oh, it’s against Trump.
This one is against him.

00:36:59.618 --> 00:37:03.368
Three weeks until the election.
And I see my mother…

00:37:03.868 --> 00:37:06.660
Wait, I’ll have to start over.

00:37:07.868 --> 00:37:10.035
Three weeks until the election,

00:37:10.285 --> 00:37:13.410
and amid the turmoil between
the possible end of Trumpism...

00:37:13.743 --> 00:37:15.493
or its continued exaltation,

00:37:16.118 --> 00:37:20.660
I see my mother sharing
right-wing fake news.

00:37:49.243 --> 00:37:51.576
And a vast absence begins
to take shape within me.

00:37:53.326 --> 00:37:55.410
Which also spreads
like a virus.

00:38:10.660 --> 00:38:12.201
I try to understand
this woman,

00:38:12.535 --> 00:38:14.910
who used to show
tenderness and understanding,

00:38:15.160 --> 00:38:17.410
but my frustration increases.

00:38:19.410 --> 00:38:23.035
There’s nothing now but
a shadow in my memory.

00:38:23.660 --> 00:38:28.160
I’m afraid the images
I cherished from my mother may vanish.

00:38:28.910 --> 00:38:30.326
Forever.

00:38:37.868 --> 00:38:38.868
October 6th.

00:38:38.910 --> 00:38:40.368
An anxious phone call.

00:38:41.618 --> 00:38:45.201
Alice bought a one-way
ticket back to Brazil.

00:38:50.660 --> 00:38:54.410
She’s afraid of what could
happen here on November 3rd.

00:38:56.618 --> 00:38:58.785
She doesn’t want to
be here anymore.

00:39:10.785 --> 00:39:14.993
What happened to my friend who
was so happy in the desert?

00:39:17.035 --> 00:39:18.993
And that fear that grows
inside my mother,

00:39:19.368 --> 00:39:21.785
Who now expresses herself
with so much anger?

00:39:31.285 --> 00:39:32.910
Nothing but absence.

00:40:10.410 --> 00:40:13.493
Hello, my friend.
I’m sorry for the late reply.

00:40:13.743 --> 00:40:16.785
Things have been
difficult around here.

00:40:20.326 --> 00:40:23.493
I was deeply moved as I
watched your last letter.

00:40:24.285 --> 00:40:29.076
It’s hard to break away from this
ideal we have of our mother

00:40:29.493 --> 00:40:33.285
as such a loving and
powerful figure.

00:40:35.035 --> 00:40:36.993
But I think
we need to understand:

00:40:37.701 --> 00:40:39.201
mothers are human beings.

00:40:39.451 --> 00:40:40.993
They make mistakes.

00:40:41.868 --> 00:40:45.493
And I believe these last elections,
both here and there,

00:40:45.868 --> 00:40:47.993
have shown us
that the people we love

00:40:48.201 --> 00:40:50.743
can also have horrible ideas.

00:40:53.951 --> 00:40:59.160
Around here,
me and all the women I know...

00:41:00.451 --> 00:41:02.743
are exhausted.

00:41:21.660 --> 00:41:25.910
Seeing you in the desert
gave me this mirrored feeling.

00:41:26.035 --> 00:41:28.535
As if you had read my mind.

00:41:29.701 --> 00:41:34.368
Because I feel like I'm in a
creative desert around here.

00:41:36.035 --> 00:41:40.701
I have looked for my sanity
in other spaces and landscapes.

00:41:51.826 --> 00:42:03.618
The worker here is nothing more
than personified labor-time.

00:42:13.243 --> 00:42:14.993
It's not just the pandemic.

00:42:18.993 --> 00:42:21.826
It's the radicalization of a
capitalist model.

00:42:21.993 --> 00:42:27.951
And the fake news that your mom
shares are part of this political project.

00:42:32.076 --> 00:42:37.094
The worker needs
time for satisfying

00:42:37.118 --> 00:42:44.052
his intellectual and social needs,
the extent and number of which

00:42:44.076 --> 00:42:52.285
are determined by the general
level of culture of his time.

00:42:55.660 --> 00:42:59.015
The mission of history...

00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:06.628
is to establish the truth
of what surrounds us.

00:43:20.910 --> 00:43:25.410
The JUNTAS campaign has been
my struggle and hope.

00:43:34.910 --> 00:43:37.118
Despite the extreme fatigue...

00:43:38.701 --> 00:43:40.660
Giving up is not an option.

00:44:24.535 --> 00:44:25.701
I hope Biden or...

00:44:25.826 --> 00:44:27.993
We are here and...

00:44:32.243 --> 00:44:35.243
will give more help
to poor people.

00:44:45.493 --> 00:44:47.493
and we won't leave!

00:49:49.035 --> 00:49:52.076
SOUTH SIDE, SÃO PAULO

00:49:52.285 --> 00:49:58.035
FIRST ROUND OF CITY ELECTIONS

00:50:01.826 --> 00:50:04.826
You’re going to win,
you’re going to win!

00:50:24.076 --> 00:50:25.261
Room 12, second floor.

00:50:25.285 --> 00:50:30.660
- Room 7?
- On the second floor.

00:50:35.035 --> 00:50:38.535
- Good afternoon, your section?
- 629

00:50:38.785 --> 00:50:40.826
Are you filming or what?

00:50:41.535 --> 00:50:46.035
FORBIDDEN TO FILM BY
THE MILITARY POLICE

00:50:54.368 --> 00:50:59.410
THE ELECTIONS OVER THERE
GAVE US HOPE

00:51:08.285 --> 00:51:10.160
She's running for
City Council!

00:51:10.410 --> 00:51:14.785
That’s what I want to believe.
That if the JUNTAS candidature...

00:51:15.785 --> 00:51:17.951
becomes a political mandate,
may it be one of hope.

00:51:17.993 --> 00:51:22.951
Hope to our outskirts, changes to our
neglected neighborhoods.

00:51:23.118 --> 00:51:28.493
In the East Side, North Side, in all our
grassroots communities...

00:51:28.660 --> 00:51:33.660
where we’ve been active.
To all those that believe in us.

00:51:43.160 --> 00:51:47.410
In the JUNTAS campaign,
I was doing photography and filming

00:51:47.451 --> 00:51:51.618
I shot some of their videos,
our crew was basically 5 women.

00:51:51.743 --> 00:51:54.326
JUNTAS and closely
following JUNTAS...

00:51:54.410 --> 00:51:58.243
rekindled many things
within me.

00:51:58.576 --> 00:52:03.035
We were enduring this pandemic
with this man who...

00:52:03.535 --> 00:52:05.285
Anyway, this man.

00:52:05.868 --> 00:52:08.076
Who is currently the president.

00:52:08.701 --> 00:52:13.035
Who was wrecking all of our...
I wouldn't even say hope.

00:52:13.118 --> 00:52:16.035
I don't even think it's hope.
But our imagination.

00:52:16.118 --> 00:52:20.826
Because Brazilians, the people of this land,
have a lot of imaginative power.

00:52:21.035 --> 00:52:24.285
To create
and reshape themselves.

00:52:24.951 --> 00:52:28.118
And I felt that was somewhat
dead within me.

00:52:28.201 --> 00:52:31.243
Not dead, perhaps, but faded.
I felt...

00:52:31.910 --> 00:52:33.410
No desire....

00:52:33.660 --> 00:52:35.493
to think of the future.

00:52:35.660 --> 00:52:39.243
And I think following JUNTAS
rekindled that feeling.

00:52:39.451 --> 00:52:44.826
THE BEGINNING OF
THE END OF BOLSONARISM?

00:52:45.201 --> 00:52:51.160
You nailed it in these campaign
months, you’re pure strength!

00:52:51.660 --> 00:52:56.576
A big hug, faith in our struggle,
we’re already more than winners.

00:52:57.701 --> 00:53:01.826
IT WAS CLOSE,
BUT WE DIDN’T WIN

00:53:03.076 --> 00:53:07.951
A FEW DAYS LATER

00:53:10.660 --> 00:53:17.160
FERNANDA PESSOA
DETECTION OF RNA SARS COV-2 POSITIVE

00:53:17.910 --> 00:53:23.701
BRUNO MORESCHI
DETECTION OF RNA SARS COV-2 NEGATIVE

00:53:35.326 --> 00:53:36.535
Alcohol.

00:53:43.493 --> 00:53:44.493
Coffee.

00:53:57.201 --> 00:54:00.326
NOTHING

00:54:43.035 --> 00:54:49.576
DOWNTOWN SÃO PAULO
SECOND ROUND OF CITY ELECTIONS

00:54:52.701 --> 00:54:55.326
Do you think it works to
put your shirt like that?

00:54:56.368 --> 00:55:00.993
It helps, right? The air
doesn’t go through.

00:55:02.535 --> 00:55:03.743
There!

00:55:07.035 --> 00:55:09.035
60-40, man!

00:55:10.535 --> 00:55:14.493
The day to vote in the second round,
I wasn’t contagious anymore.

00:55:14.785 --> 00:55:17.035
So I could at least vote.

00:55:18.076 --> 00:55:21.035
We watched the counting,

00:55:21.201 --> 00:55:23.451
it was raining,

00:55:24.951 --> 00:55:27.576
and you sent me

00:55:28.076 --> 00:55:30.785
a box of your sister's sweets,

00:55:30.910 --> 00:55:33.493
which was the only joy that day,

00:55:33.576 --> 00:55:39.701
because I had Covid and the elections
didn't turn out as we expected.

00:55:43.451 --> 00:55:46.118
Hi, hello?

00:55:46.410 --> 00:55:47.660
Hi!

00:55:50.076 --> 00:55:51.535
It’s bad, isn’t it?

00:55:55.576 --> 00:55:57.035
There’s no other…

00:55:58.910 --> 00:56:00.285
Are you filming?

00:56:01.951 --> 00:56:04.035
Why are you holding that?

00:56:05.160 --> 00:56:07.201
I'm not wearing my glasses.
I can’t see anything!

00:56:07.368 --> 00:56:09.410
I just got out of the shower,
I’m naked.

00:56:10.660 --> 00:56:14.410
Bruno Covas has been reelected
mayor of the biggest city in Brazil.

00:56:14.576 --> 00:56:17.344
WE DIDN’T WIN

00:56:17.368 --> 00:56:21.743
BUT WE MOVED FORWARD?

00:56:31.368 --> 00:56:32.368
Moving forward....

00:56:33.285 --> 00:56:35.785
Sometimes it's such a hard
thing to accomplish, friend.

00:56:37.535 --> 00:56:39.035
I'm glad you are well now.

00:56:39.368 --> 00:56:43.118
Even under the threat of
so many viruses spreading.

00:56:47.493 --> 00:56:49.868
I tried to remain optimistic.

00:56:50.493 --> 00:56:52.285
I confess it can't last long,

00:56:52.493 --> 00:56:54.201
even though
I celebrated Christmas,

00:56:54.410 --> 00:56:56.410
this Christian
capitalist paraphernalia.

00:57:26.868 --> 00:57:29.243
A naked guy just
ran over the street.

00:57:29.326 --> 00:57:30.326
Naked?

00:57:30.660 --> 00:57:31.660
Completely.

00:57:33.368 --> 00:57:34.618
Did you captured it?

00:57:35.160 --> 00:57:37.701
I lowered the camera and
only caught his butt.

00:57:44.576 --> 00:57:46.035
The end of the year is near,

00:57:46.451 --> 00:57:48.951
and I don't know how we
will postpone the end of the world,

00:57:49.785 --> 00:57:51.451
here and there.

00:57:52.326 --> 00:57:58.868
Telework, zoom, and depression.

00:58:45.410 --> 00:58:46.660
To break with this trance,

00:58:46.826 --> 00:58:50.660
I repeat Zeinabu Irene Davis's
cyclical and ritualistic phrase

00:58:51.243 --> 00:58:52.993
in one of her films:

00:59:01.743 --> 00:59:04.993
The sorority between sisters
answers:

00:59:05.076 --> 00:59:07.368
How is your body now?

00:59:09.118 --> 00:59:11.785
Mine is here...

00:59:12.535 --> 00:59:13.660
But...

00:59:14.660 --> 00:59:16.076
not the heart.

00:59:17.660 --> 00:59:20.035
There's also a feeling
of incompleteness.

00:59:20.160 --> 00:59:25.743
Because my body feels whole
when close to another body.

00:59:27.035 --> 00:59:28.951
Virgin of desires.

00:59:29.368 --> 00:59:30.868
Lover of life.

00:59:31.868 --> 00:59:33.743
Sister of dreams.

00:59:34.160 --> 00:59:35.660
Daughter of hope.

00:59:36.493 --> 00:59:38.243
Protect us all.

00:59:38.493 --> 00:59:40.993
Black, brown
and white women.

00:59:41.868 --> 00:59:44.493
Natives, whores, and lesbians.

00:59:44.868 --> 00:59:49.118
Sprout the necessary
illusions from the earth.

00:59:49.368 --> 00:59:50.785
So that we may
continue fighting.

00:59:51.701 --> 00:59:53.243
Free us from racists.

00:59:53.493 --> 00:59:54.618
Homophobes.

00:59:54.785 --> 00:59:55.868
Corrupts.

00:59:56.035 --> 00:59:58.535
Sexists and classists.

00:59:58.826 --> 01:00:01.993
And from preachers
and hypocritical cures.

01:00:21.448 --> 01:00:23.266
A WOMAN’S BODY
SOMETHING SUBLIME

01:00:23.332 --> 01:00:27.370
The waiting was endless in Argentina
12 hours of debate tested the nerves

01:00:27.451 --> 01:00:29.743
of the green wave, until...

01:00:31.118 --> 01:00:32.910
the cry of joy at the end!

01:00:33.118 --> 01:00:40.035
The Argentine Senate approved the
legal abortion in the first 14 weeks.

01:00:40.118 --> 01:00:42.576
THE FREEDOM AND PLEASURE
PLEASURE!

01:00:42.618 --> 01:00:47.993
For Argentine feminists, this is a historical
moment, after many years of struggle.

01:00:49.618 --> 01:00:54.243
And you begin to
have these needs.

01:00:54.701 --> 01:01:00.743
I was buying products for my diet,
and coincidentally...

01:01:00.993 --> 01:01:03.743
there was a sex shop
right in front.

01:01:04.118 --> 01:01:05.618
This is my moment.

01:01:06.035 --> 01:01:10.618
It’s not a vibrator,
but a clitoris sucker.

01:01:11.118 --> 01:01:12.243
How does that work?

01:01:12.660 --> 01:01:14.118
It’s this one.

01:01:14.493 --> 01:01:15.201
Let me see.

01:01:15.326 --> 01:01:18.243
But it’s really good,
you turn it on...

01:01:18.535 --> 01:01:24.743
It's weak now,
but it grows stronger.

01:01:25.993 --> 01:01:30.451
There!
Can you hear it?

01:01:30.618 --> 01:01:31.660
Yes!

01:01:37.993 --> 01:01:40.743
So you feel this suction.

01:01:40.868 --> 01:01:45.743
Now you can enjoy this on the
last night of the year, right?

01:01:46.993 --> 01:01:53.094
Yes, they say how you spend
the last night of the year...

01:01:53.118 --> 01:01:55.368
is how you’re going to spend
the rest of your life.

01:01:55.743 --> 01:01:59.993
But even if I wish to spend
it with pleasure.

01:02:01.243 --> 01:02:06.410
The truth is nothing replaces
pleasure with someone, you know?

01:02:08.160 --> 01:02:11.344
Yeah, there’s no machine
that can replace that.

01:02:11.368 --> 01:02:19.993
There’s no machine to replace
a touch, a kiss, a caress.

01:02:20.285 --> 01:02:25.660
A WOMAN’S BODY
SOMETHING SUBLIME

01:02:44.285 --> 01:02:48.035
Take those rosaries out
of our ovaries.

01:02:54.201 --> 01:02:58.701
five, four, three,
two, one.

01:03:05.410 --> 01:03:07.993
You, your sisters, Argentina..

01:03:08.660 --> 01:03:09.951
made me think:

01:03:10.951 --> 01:03:13.826
What does it mean
to have a body?

01:03:14.160 --> 01:03:16.160
Of a woman
or an LGBT body...

01:03:16.493 --> 01:03:19.285
In times of death, disease?

01:03:19.451 --> 01:03:21.326
In times of this government?

01:03:31.826 --> 01:03:37.493
What a nice vacation. Such a delight
to relax after this year.

01:03:37.618 --> 01:03:43.451
The sun feels so good. Time for a tan
unwind, relax.

01:03:43.701 --> 01:03:45.618
How wonderful!

01:03:53.368 --> 01:03:56.368
Fuck life.
Fuck life.

01:03:59.201 --> 01:04:01.344
The question is: you often talked
about early treatment.

01:04:01.368 --> 01:04:05.576
In many press conferences you
mentioned chloroquine.

01:04:28.118 --> 01:04:31.701
Fresh from the shower. Now I'll
get ready for the new year.

01:04:31.993 --> 01:04:37.927
My white outfit is here. It has to be white.
It's New Year's Eve, you have to ask for peace.

01:04:37.951 --> 01:04:41.660
I also have new panties, which
I bought just for this occasion.

01:04:41.951 --> 01:04:46.076
This is my basic look asking for peace.
2021, that's what we want.

01:04:48.326 --> 01:04:52.035
Prosperity too, because it's
tough here in Brazil.

01:04:52.201 --> 01:04:56.326
Let's see if this helps us in
this economic crisis,

01:04:56.410 --> 01:04:58.743
Find some money to make films.

01:05:02.201 --> 01:05:04.410
Stir it a little to grow.

01:05:04.618 --> 01:05:07.826
Let's go:
money, prosperity.

01:05:14.118 --> 01:05:17.785
Friend, I'm also doing some rituals
to see if things get better!

01:05:17.910 --> 01:05:21.326
Burning some palo santo
to move away the bad energy!

01:05:21.785 --> 01:05:26.160
But things are bad,
the ghosts are heavy on us.

01:05:27.618 --> 01:05:33.076
Go away bad energy, bad juju!
Only good energy from now on!

01:05:33.326 --> 01:05:39.493
Come on! Out with the bad energy!
Clean everything and energize again!

01:05:39.826 --> 01:05:49.368
10, 9, 8, 7, 6,
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

01:05:58.826 --> 01:06:00.451
Happy New Year!

01:06:02.326 --> 01:06:05.868
To our health!
To Vaccines!

01:06:07.076 --> 01:06:10.076
Get out, Bolsonaro!

01:06:40.160 --> 01:06:43.535
Twelve seeds:
one for each wish.

01:06:43.743 --> 01:06:46.576
Half of these are just
to take down Bolsonaro!

01:07:58.160 --> 01:08:00.910
Huh? It was supposed to
be on the front page, no?

01:08:01.368 --> 01:08:06.201
Where does it say Bolsonaro
is no longer president?

01:08:06.368 --> 01:08:08.493
Where's the news that
the vaccines arrived?

01:08:08.910 --> 01:08:11.118
Where's the impeachment?
Where's the vaccine?

01:08:11.326 --> 01:08:12.951
What about
all my efforts yesterday?

01:08:13.326 --> 01:08:14.743
What about
my pomegranate seeds?

01:08:15.243 --> 01:08:16.951
What about my lentils
and my white clothes?

01:08:17.326 --> 01:08:17.951
Where is it?

01:08:18.326 --> 01:08:18.868
Where is it?

01:08:19.160 --> 01:08:22.410
Where is it?

01:08:22.785 --> 01:08:23.160
Where is it?

01:08:23.535 --> 01:08:23.993
Where is it?

01:08:24.535 --> 01:08:25.535
Where is it?

01:08:25.826 --> 01:08:27.951
I'm laughing
so I don't have to cry, friend.

01:08:28.118 --> 01:08:31.201
NEW YEAR
How to handle expectations.

01:09:01.951 --> 01:09:02.951
Where?

01:09:03.576 --> 01:09:04.576
Where?

01:09:06.326 --> 01:09:08.201
Where is the beginning of a new year?

01:09:09.576 --> 01:09:11.326
The rebirth of democracy?

01:09:12.868 --> 01:09:14.076
Another chance?

01:09:15.493 --> 01:09:17.326
Nothing here either, my friend.

01:09:18.201 --> 01:09:20.743
There was the noise of
insurrection at the Capitol,

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images of guillotines,

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and flags from a past that should be dead.

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But I see that damned past is alive

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and armed to the teeth.

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I show you again

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this city

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not that new to me.

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Full of charms

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and many contradictions.

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Yet here we are, friend.

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And no one can save
themselves alone.

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Yes, we can!

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Like Paula Gaitán,

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I discover myself in this
dual Latin American identity,

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willing to belong here

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along with those that
won't feed the machines.

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I see Nava and she convinced me

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that despite the massacres

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we have to believe again in utopias.

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I know you want an ending with
more hope for your film.

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So, yes

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I can make the effort

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of finding optimism.

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Well...

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Something that
really motivates me

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and that inspires me

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is that there are so
many who are fighting

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to transform this world

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to transform the systems
that disenfranchised so many.

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And I say there are many victories

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in those efforts.

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I say

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that many things have changed.

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The fact that I can be alive

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safe and sound

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and that.

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I have a career.

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That my family loves me and accepts me.

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That I have friends,

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that I have a future of my own.

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It means the world has changed
enough for that.

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Because,

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one generation back,
a trans latina woman

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wouldn't survive to
the age I am now.

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So...

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that gives me hope.

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I remembered some verses
one of these days,

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in my other language

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that I wish one day
I can recite with you.

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They think the tide goes,
but never comes back.

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Until now, they've been
controlling my destiny.

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And I backed down...

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collecting furies.

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Now I am a loose wave.

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As strong as they
consider me weak.

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When they see the tide turn,

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I want to know if they can
defy the surprise.

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I want to see how they
react to the tempestuous ocean.

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Hey Bolsonaro, you little fascist,
the women will put you in your place!

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The women will put you in your place!