Jonathas de Andrade

Joie Musculare

A dive into moments of concentration and muscular tension typical of the world of sport. Through intrusive thoughts and layers of everyday life, the film approaches the personal and metaphorical dimensions of overcoming. Starring ordinary people from the Parisian suburbs of Noisy le Sec, the film culminates with the passing of an unofficial torch, as a symbol of dream and collective resistance.

Out Loud

With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.

The Fish

"A fisherman, dark-skinned and shirtless, sits in a boat on a quiet river and, before long, catches a fish. The fish gasps for air and the fisherman holds it to his chest until it dies. This sequence—performed by a series of fishermen, of various ages and using various styles of capture—is the spine of the work, interrupted by passages of quiet natural beauty; one shot is a steady, stately pan through scores of trees and empty air behind." - Vinson Cunningham

The Housekeeper

"A deeply beautiful and disturbing split-screen depiction of the contrasting daily routines of sociologist Gilberto Freyre in 1959 (author of The Masters and the Slaves, originator of Lusotropicalism, proponent of racial integration) and Cristóvão, an ordinary housekeeper in 2016." - Angeline Gragásin

The Uprising

As farm animals are prohibited anywhere in Recife, everyone who gets about by horse is made invisible from the point of view of the law. Only by dealing with the race as if it were scene from a movie – by being able, therefore, to have it considered as being to some extent a piece of "fiction" - is what would make the event feasible and fit to obtain the authorizations needed to make it happen from the official point of view.

4000 disparos

"4000 shots helps me to position myself in relation to the history I did not experience directly, but from which I am a descendent. A history full of the most traumatic episodes which I access more through readings and less through my own body, through an instinctive reaction which is sensitive to me. The way I react to what touches me, to what disgusts me, or to what I profoundly desire defines how I move. It defines the political use of my existence. Art helps me to approach and respond to what provokes me. It also helps me to experience more wholeness along the way. To make this work, I used a roll of Super 8 film to shoot, frame by frame, faces of random men in the streets of Buenos Aires. The urgency, the obsession, the randomness, and the aesthetics of the video bring up an ambiguous atmosphere of this past—the very amnesia in which this memory is embedded." - Jonathas de Andrade