Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)

 

 

"The other day I was talking to a friend who was talking about the last sequence of my film in the Uber, and I think I came up with something that makes some sense. There is a short distance between the actual place, the physical space, and—I’m beginning to sound like Rod Serling—the beginning of imagination. The point where you go into imagination, ideas, cinema, and literature. I think it’s quite easy to live in the city and go into the desert and make a film like Lawrence of Arabia (1962). But if you make a film where you live, the distance between reality and the imagination is just the camera. And that thought led me to the last sequence in the film: it begins like realism, but slowly the sound becomes a little more Hollywood, a little like a late-’80s Warners movie, and the music becomes more present. And for me it’s like stepping out of the cinema, into that overlapping space."

]read interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho​
conducted by Tom Charity​

TIFF 2023 | Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) — Wavelengths - Cinema Scope