30 YEARS: Marcelo Machado | 18th Festival

The director Marcelo Machado recounts the beginnings of production company Olhar Eletrônico, whose pioneering work in the 1980s gave voice to common citizens, something then unheard of in Brazilian TV news programs

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30 YEARS: José Celso Martinez Corrêa | 18th Festival

The theater director José Celso Martinez reminisces on the work of group Uzina Uzona in the 1980s, as they appropriated the new language of video to express themselves amidst the dying breaths of the dictatorship regime

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30 YEARS: Fernando Meirelles | 18th Festival

The director Fernando Meirelles revisits the early years of his production with the company Olhar Eletrônico, in the 1980s, when both video and the Festival were in their beginnings

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Hui Tao | 18th Festival

Contemporary China is the subject of this statement by Hui Tao, and of his piece featured in the 18th Festival

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Viviane Teixeira | 18th Festival

One of the painters featured in the 18th Festival discusses the importance of fantasy and imagery to her works

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Jacinto Astiazarán | 18th Festival

The circulation of ideas and images between cultures is the theme of the artist’s work, featured in the 2013 Southern Panoramas show

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Christian Bermudez | 18th Festival

The artist discusses the experience of producing an ethnographic document on tourism in northern Norway

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Daniel Jacoby | 18th Festival

The Peruvian artist, who featured in the 18th Festival, discusses his piece Cuculí, conceived during a stay in Japan

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Gusztav Hámos | 18th Festival

The veteran video artist – whose works have been featured in the Festival since the 80s – discusses his first appearance at the event

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Orit Ben-Shitrit | 18th Festival

The artist featured in the 18th Festival discusses her piece Vive Le Capital

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