BigList
Login / Sign up
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010)

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010)

Documentary
Release Date: 2010, October 3
Directors: Carlos Adriano
Countries: Brazil
Cast: Ismail Xavier, Alberto Santos Dumont, Charles Rolls, Paul Spehr, Eduardo Morettin, Henrique Lins de Barros, Solange Ferraz de Lima, Ron Magliozzi, Charles Silver

Overview:

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932). The work approaches historic and artistic aspects from the beginning of Cinema (pre cinema, variety film) and a cinema that appropriates archive material (found footage, recycled films), through interviews, documents, visual metaphors and the articulation of a poetic essay.