30 YEARS: Tadeu Jungle | 18th Festival
Tadeu Jungle tells of what the emergence of Videobrasil represented in the 1980s, and talks about his participation in the Festival with Herois da Decadên(s)ia, which won a prize at the fifth edition, in 1987
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30 YEARS: Marcelo Tas | 18th Festival
In the early 1980s, no one had a camera in their hand, only television, Marcelo Tas explains it. Invading the programming of TV channels was one of the goals of the production company Olhar Eletrônico, of which Tas was a part
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30 YEARS: Walter Silveira | 18th Festival
Walter Silveira, one of the founders of TVDO, a pioneering video company in Brazil, reveals how he conceived the piece VT Preparado, inspired by John Cage and Augusto de Campos. The piece won a prize at the 4th Festival
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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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30 YEARS: Sandra Kogut | 18th Festival
The artist, who won a prize at the 1996 Fesetival, reminisces on the early days of video in Brazil, in the 1980s, and discusses the role of Videobrasil, and the opportunity to create a piece of work at the Montbéliard Festival in 1989
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Solange Farkas: Three decades of history
The director of Videobrasil discusses the history of the Festival. Her statement is part of a program of the Videobrasil on TV season, produced in partnership with SESC TV
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Poesia é risco, by Augusto de Campo, Cid Campos and Walter Silveira | 11th Festival
Created in 1996, the "verbivocovisual event", as described by the authors, mixed poetry, electronic music, singing, and video footage
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Bardo, by Marcondes Dourado | 11th Festival
In this performance presented in 1996, Marcondes Dourado combines dancing, video and theater, inspired by Antonin Artaud’s texts about the experience of seclusion in psychiatric facilities
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