Zona Autônoma

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Note of intent

Zona autônoma seeks to rewrite the story of JL and MT, two orphaned boys who find themselves subdued by the contemporary metropolis. The film follows the process and the path the two boys follow as they try to survive and re-immerse themselves in the city that changes all the time and that does not respect those on its surface. The desire is to create a space for the bodies of the actors / characters to enable them to find their place in these areas of eternal conflict that are Brazilian cities.

Synopsis

Mateus (12) and João Lucas (15) witness the murder of their parents by an unknown boy on the dark outskirts of São Paulo. After the traumatic event the two brothers become MT and JL and start living in an abandoned car where they sleep and remember the dreams they once had and of the family they can’t have. Things start to change when Dalyla (15), JL’s childhood crush, reappears deformed after a boating accident. She is involved in a card cloning scheme and lures her older brother into the crime. In a parallel development, MT finds in a middle-aged woman, Irene, a mirage of his deceased mother. Marked by the death of her son, she transfers to the boy all the affection she has been keeping inside. When JL and Dalyla flee the police after being discovered, MT moves in with Irene. However, like Yin and Yang, the brothers cannot survive apart as if their lives depended on the same tragic act that destroyed their family.

Visual concept

An important element that makes up our history is the presence of fantastic elements. The world is no longer the same and arbitrary darkness casts the narrative into a different time-space. The intersections of reality and fantasy are key points from which to compose the relationships of the characters with the world they inhabit. An aesthetic path that combines poetry, violence and affection can generate much more interesting powers that, yes, can describe the fragmented, impersonal and traumatic world we live in.