Nilson Villas-Boas

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

In a beach house, snapshots of a couple's relationship are interspersed with flashbacks to a political past that still threatens their lives.

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha’s "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the filmmaker’s words this experimental short is about “the psychic suffering of women in a patriarchal society”. It takes the viewer on a disorienting journey—with abrupt cuts in sound and image—through the Catholic Church, repressed sexuality, racial violence perpetrated by white women, maternal fatigue, male chauvinism and drug addiction…