Gustavo Vinagre: I Remember the Crows

21.09.2023 / 19:00 – 21:30
With Gustavo Vinagre

Brazilian filmmaker and current film fellow Gustavo Vinagre is a highly creative protagonist of contemporary queer cinema. In the 14 short- and six feature-length films he has written and directed, queerness exceeds the realm of representation in order to become part of the fabric of images. On September 21 we will screen his second documentary feature I Remember the Crows from 2018.

Filmed in a single all-night session, I Remember the Crows is an extended interview with the filmmaker’s friend and collaborator Julia Katharine, a Japanese-Brazilian trans actress-filmmaker whose insomnia keeps her awake long enough to candidly spill stories of her childhood, family, romances, desires, self-destructive impulses, and—above all—love of cinema. Vinagre invests himself in Julia’s tales as a quiet but attentive insider as she speaks at length of her insecurities, her desire to divulge honestly and still engage her audience, and the various films that have shaped her identity. A deeply personal and immediate confessional, I Remember the Crows observes a psychological fulfillment from its subject and director inconceivable in any other time and place.

The screening will be followed by a conversation between Gustavo Vinagre and curator, critic and filmmaker James Lattimer.

I Remember the Crows (Lembro mais dos corvos)
Brazil, 2018, 80 min., Original version with English subtitles

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Admission free