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Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City (1968)

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City (1968)

Documentary
Release Date: 1968, January 1
Directors: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Countries: Brazil
Production: Filmes do Serro
Cast: Ferreira Gullar

Overview:

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

Keywords:

short film architecture