Your silence will not protect you

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Note of intent

As a Latin American woman, I want to seek and leave records of images and conversations that express my experience in the world and enable other women to access these images as well, in order to go to others from them, and mainly to be able to feel that there is a possibility of dialogue. Not only to repeat words and images already made, already said, already stipulated: about the world and mainly about us. But to create new paths. And so that we can expand what we mean by cinema.

Synopsis

In Brazil, women are being forbidden to walk on the streets. With this background, we see, in three different chapters, how women in different moments of history try to create a possible path for their lives. And to write a different story. In each chapter, the main character passes the baton to the next. The characters are not recurrent, however, it’s the actions and decisions of each of them in each chapter that define what will take place in the next one. These women struggle, and they build a new relationship between imagery and bodily experience created in their lives but also in the film. What can the warfare image of a woman in motion be?

Visual concept

Following the experience of Desterro, this film is also divided in three chapters, although done differently, because now the characters also change. Made from the point of view of a woman that experiences life in a fragmented narrative, this film is also fragmented. The aim is to show how the future is already happening. Linear times are mixed and therefore make different characters repeat the same path. A few women die in the way, but it’s the refusal of current representations that will set these women free.