Undertow Eyes (Brazil)

Undertow Eyes

Olhos de Ressaca
Petra Costa
2009, Brazil, 20′
Atelier Petra Costa

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, reminisce through their past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from family archives that confound themselves with images of the present, suggests a personal diary on love and death. An intimate look at how people are shaped by love and how the memory of it is transmitted from a generation to the next.

Giona A. Nazzaro

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, reminisce through their past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from family archives that confound themselves with images of the present, suggests a personal diary on love and death. An intimate look at how people are shaped by love and how the memory of it is transmitted from a generation to the next.

Giona A. Nazzaro

Language(s):  Portuguese
Subtitles:  English
VdR edition:  2020

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Petra Costa

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