Muito Romântico

The adventure of Melissa and Gustavo starts aboard a red cargo ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It takes them from Brazil to Berlin, a city of perpetual movement, where the old constantly has to give space to the new. The couple finds a home and transforms it into the center of their own universe. As time passes and seasons change, life and cinema become interchangeable and their apartment evolves into an ever-changing stage, where friends are invited to play their own roles and reality and fiction merge. Until one day a cosmic portal appears in their home, opening connections between the past, the present, and the future.
Drawing from autobiography as well as fantasy, Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn weave their experiences in Berlin into a colorful tapestry of memories, encounters, and dreams. The duo poses filmmaking as a communal as well as a personal endeavor, and themselves as travelers between distant places, both geographically and temporally, on a journey transcending space and time.

Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn have formed the artist duo Distruktur since 2006, when they moved together from southern Brazil to Berlin. Two of their films have been shown at Forum Expanded.

Gustavo Jahn and Melissa Dullius have formed the artist duo Distruktur since 2006, when they moved together from southern Brazil to Berlin. Two of their films have been shown at Forum Expanded.

Directors Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn. Screenplay Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn. Cinematography Ville Piippo. Production companies Distruktur (Berlin, Germany), If You Hold a Stone (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). With Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn, Lilja Löffler, Nikolaus Tscheschner, Mei Wright, Steve Nietz, Annika Sörling, Friederike Frerichs, Eckhard Stritzel.

Films

Melissa Dullius: 2006: Éternau (21 min). 2008: Triangulum (Forum expanded, 22 min). 2011: Cat Effekt (40 min). 2012: Fotokino (3 min), Don't Look Back / Labirinto (6 min). 2013: In the Traveler's Heart (6 min). 2014: A Máquina do Tempo (5 min). 2016: Muito Romântico (Forum expanded 2016, 72 min). 2018: El Meraya (19 min). 2020: Levantado Do Chão (22 min). 2021: Oráculo (61 min).

Gustavo Jahn: 2006: Éternau (21 min). 2008: Triangulum (Forum expanded 2008, 22 min). 2011: Cat Effekt (40 min). 2012: Fotokino (3 min), Don't look back / Labirinto (6 min). 2013: In the Traveler's Heart (20 min). 2014: A Máquina do Tempo (5 min). 2016: Muito Romântico (Forum expanded 2016, 72 min). 2018: El Meraya (19 min). 2020: Levantado Do Chão (22 min). 2021: Oráculo (61 min).

Forum Expanded catalog 2016

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