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Pictures of Ghosts
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A multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the city of Recife.

Documentary • Moving • Quirky

Director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau, Aquarius) explores his home city through the great movie theatres which played such a vital role in fostering his love for the medium.

Combining archive documentary, mystery, film clips and personal memories, Pictures of Ghosts is a moving and playful film that examines both the architectural and social structures of his home city and his relationship to cinema and the spaces it inhabits.

Details

Original language title

Retratos Fantasmas

Duration

1hr 33mins

Director

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Distributor

ICA

Featuring

Sonia Braga • Tony Curtis • Maeve Jinkings

Year

2023

Country of origin

Brazil

Language

Portuguese

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“The buildings may one day rot, but everyone in Recife can now point to this urgent, moving piece of preservation and find in it an eternal record of its film history.”
Guilherme Jacobs, IndieWire

“In comparing and contrasting contemporary streets and buildings with various depictions in photographs and on film, Pictures of Ghosts offers a personally-skewed document of vibrant social history, one which attempts to deal with a fluctuating urban topography through the lens of time.”
David Jenkins, Little White Lies