What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.
Fábio Rodrigues Filho
Director, Writer
Antônio Pitanga
(archive footage)
Antônio Pompêo
(archive footage)
Zezé Motta
(archive footage)
Grande Otelo
(archive footage)
Lázaro Ramos
(archive footage)
Milton Gonçalves
(archive footage)
Ruth de Souza
(archive footage)
Léa Garcia
(archive footage)
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Sidney70%
Maternal Instinct72%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Public Speaking70%
Report61%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Sherman's March67%
The Class of ‘9271%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Fuck64%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
Elstree 197661%
McQueen74%
Directed by John Ford70%
Cameraperson67%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Looking for Richard68%
