Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
While We're Here
While We're Here
Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti
BRAZIL
2019
Film
Feature Film
Two lives intersect in New York. Lamis, a Lebanese woman, has just moved to the city and describes her impressions, while Wilson, a Brazilian, has lived there for 10 years. We never see them on screen, but their relationship is described in poetic Portuguese and Arabic voices, which contrast with the images, filmed in New York, Berlin and Brazil. This hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes this “film diary” reminiscent of Chantal Akerman’s News from Home (1977) – the main thread remains intimate and human: desire, love, fear and memories.
Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti
Clarissa Campolina has been producing films and installations since 1999. She also works as an editor. Her first feature film, “Girumunho“, won the Interfilm Prize in Venice. In collaboration with Julia De Simone and the Pretti brothers, Campolina made “Porto” (2014), a creative documentary nominated for the Tiger Award in Rotterdam. In 2015, the Art Residency Program organized a retrospective of her work at the Arsenal Cinema in Berlin. Luiz Pretti is part of the production company Alumbramento, where he regularly works with his brother Ricardo. He received the Cinema do Futuro Award for the film Estrada Para Ythaca (2010) at the Buenos Aires Film Festival.
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