O FIM DO SEM FIM
a documentary by lucas bambozzi, cao guimarães and beto magalhães
g e ne ral inf o :
original format: 16mm – super8 - DV
screening format: 35mm
som: Dolby Digital
window: 1:66
running time versions: 91 minutes/65 minutes
concluded in 2001/2002
sy no p sis:
O Fim do Sem Fim is a feature documentary film that has as scenery the upcoming
disappearance of some jobs and professions in Brazil. It composes an immersive picture about
the creative geniality and the resistance against new cultural forms and technological trends.
By discussing the finality and the expected end of some process evolved in some kind of
handwork nowadays, the substitutions that contemporary life promotes are discussed with
great originality by the professionals workers. Experts in not so useful activities, they play in
the film their own roles in real life.
Using metaphors and playing between fiction and reality, the experts are portrayed in different
ways of approaching. Some of them are introduced with no further interference while some
are presented in a more elaborated form.
At the end, the work draws a curious picture about several inheritances and so many different
references that makes what is supposed to be a Brazilian being.
Reinforcing an anthropophagic view of such a culture, the film does not stick with any
homogeneous resource or uniform aesthetics. The work tends to strength the concept that
the talent and originality of Brazilian people is to reinvent themselves from being oppressed
by any form of cultural imposition.
O Fim do Sem Fim was shot in Brazil at locations in the regions of Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo,
Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Paraíba and Ceará.
sp o nso rs
PETROBRAS / BR
MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF BRAZIL /SAV
made possible by Concurso de Premiação de Projetos de Documentário de Média Metragem
do Ministério da Cultura
co - p ro d uct io n
Bananeira Filmes [[email protected]]
Diphusa – digital media + aRT <[email protected]>
O FIM DO SEM FIM
a documentary by lucas bambozzi, cao guimarães and beto magalhães
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direction: Lucas Bambozzi, Cao Guimarães e Beto Magalhães
production: Vania Catani
executive production: Lucas Bambozzi
producer: Beto Magalhães
script: Lucas Bambozzi and Cao Guimarães
16mm photography: Cao Guimarães
Super 8 photography: Lucas Bambozzi e Cao Guimarães
DV photography: Lucas Bambozzi and Beto Magalhães
live audio: Marcos Moreira Marcos
assistant: Gilberto Gibi Cardoso
opening and credits: Júlio Dui
sound design and soundtrack: O Grivo
edition: Lucas Bambozzi, Cao Guimarães and Beto Magalhães
se le ct e d p ub lic scre e ning s and aw ard s
IT ’S A LL T RUE / É TUDO V ERDADE
6TH S ÃO P AULO I NTERNATIONAL D OCUMENTARY F ILM F ESTIVAL
São Paulo/Brazil - April, 2001
award: prize GNT for the most innovative documentary in the main competition
C INECEARÁ - FESTIVAL DE C INEMA DO C E A R Á
Fortaleza /Brazil - June, 2001
award: best editing
F ESTIVAL DO R IO BR 2001
Rio e Janeiro – November 2001
V UE S UR L E D OCS /F ICTIONS DU R ÉEL - FID FESTIVAL I NT . DU D OCUMENTAIRE
M ARSEILLE
Marseille/France – June/July, 2001
award: prize Georges de Beauregard, offered by the Canal+ for the most innovative production
within the international competition
42 ND F ESTIVAL DEI P O P O L I
Florence/Italy – december, 2001
MEDI @ TERRA
- FOURNOS C ULTURE
Athens/Greece 2002
award: sole honorable mention - Feature Length Digital Competition
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Júlio Vieira
bell man
São João del Rey - MG
Jorge Luiz Miranda de Souza
railway man
Paranapiacaba – SP
Paulo Marques de Oliveira
master of masters
Salinas - MG
Augusto César Sampaio Fiorelli
watch maker
São Paulo - SP
Luiz Vidal Filho [Bahiano]
shoeshiner
Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Sr. Demerval Vanucchi
lift boy
São Paulo – SP
José Roberval Pereira [Seu Ró]
bar philosopher
Grão Mogol - MG
Conceição Nascimento
glass maker
Salvador – BA
José Ferreira Camargos
1 s t street photographer [lambe-lambe]
Belo Horizonte - MG
Severino Rodrigues de Lima
lighthouse keeper
Olinda – PE
Valdivino Spinola de Souza
gold seeker
Grão Mogol - MG
Francisco Pereira Silva
2 nd street photographer [lambe-lambe]
Juazeiro do Norte - CE
Maria dos Santos Faria [Dª Santinha]
mid wife
Milho Verde – MG
Maria Nádia do Nascimento
street photographer client
Juazeiro do Norte - CE
Manoel Luis dos Santos
prophet
São José do Egito – PB
Luiz Carlos Santos
cinema usher
Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Olegário Fernandes da Silva
poet cordelist
Caruarú - PE
Esmeraldina Militão das Neves [Dª.Dina]
kerosene lamp maker
Salvador – BA
Mário Bispo de Souza
prayer
Salvador - BA
José dos Santos Silva
lighter fixer
Juazeiro do Norte – CE
Elcio Ferreira Paulino
clerk [son]
Amadeus Ferreira Paulino
clerk [father]
Grão Mogol – MG
Gilberto Cardoso
cock maestro
Exu – CE
Teruo Koizumi
benshiSão Paulo – SP
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Milton Santos
peddler promoter
Divisa Alegre – MG
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Lucas Bamboz z i
Born in 1965 in Brazil. Bachelor in Social Communication/Journalism at UFMG Belo Horizonte. Studied
Semiotics at PUC-São Paulo. Master of Philosophy at CaiiA-STAR, University of Plymouth - UK. By the
end of the 80's start to develop studies and artistic work using new media and moving images, exploring
the expressive potentiality of the video. Most of his works are authorial and independent pieces,
including a wide variety of formats, such as video-installations, single channel videos, short films,
music videos, and interactive work. Lucas has been frequently awarded and constantly screened inside
and outside of Brazil, in more than 25 countries.
Be to Magalhãe s
Born in 1964 in Belo Horizonte. Bachelor in Economics at FACE-UFMG(1987). Since the middle of the
80’s works as a video and film productor. Founder of Trincheira Video, the first community/street TV in
Belo Horizonte (1986). Also organised two important video festival in the city of Belo Horizonte. By the
end of the 90’s started his career as a producer and director of documentaries .
Cao Guimarãe s
Born in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Bachelor in Philosophy at UFMG, Belo Horizonte. Master of Arts
in Photographic Studies , Westminster University, London, UK. Started working with art and
photography in the middle of the 80’s, showing his works in different exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. In
the 90’s started developing experiences in moving images using mainly super-8 and digital video. Also
made some short films, art installations and a book about sensorial experiences .
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co-production
Bananeira Filmes [[email protected]]
Diphusa – digital media + aRT <[email protected]>
sponsors
PETROBRAS / BR
Ministry of Culture of Brazil /SAV
made possible by Concurso de Premiação de Projetos de Documentário de Média Metragem
do Ministério da Cultura
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