Cartas do Absurdo
Letters from Absurd
Director
Sanna Gabraz
Brazil / 2025
46 min.
/ Original version with English subtitles
Original language
Tupi
The end of the world described in four letters written by native Brazilians in the 17th century. Cartas do Absurdo deals with the devastating effects of the genocide of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples over the last five centuries.
Gabraz Sanna is a Brazilian filmmaker whose work moves between direct and experimental cinema, focusing on the dialogue between different artistic languages. His films have been shown at festivals and museums around the world. As a former literature student, he made his first full-length films as portraits of two important writers in the Portuguese language: Manoel de Barros and Maria Gabriela Llansol. Sanna has collaborated with artists such as Maria Bethânia, Caetano Veloso, Tantão, Digitaria, Sara Não tem Nome, Felappi Montparnasse, and Tindersticks. Following Ruína (2015) and Eu sou o Rio (with Anne Santos,2017), this is his third participation in Forum Expanded.
Director Gabraz Sanna. Screenplay Gabraz Sanna. Cinematography Gabraz Sanna. Editing Gabraz Sanna. Music Gabraz Sanna, Nilo Castello Sandes. Sound Design Gabraz Sanna. Sound Gabraz Sanna. Producer Gabraz Sanna. Executive Producer Gabraz Sanna. Production company Eu morri em 1999 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). With Sara Não Tem Nome, Eliakin.
Films: 2004: O Estrangeiro / The Stranger (3 min.). 2005: A Roda / Wheels (12 min.), Plano sequência para surtar os amigos (10 min.), Diferença ou Repetição / Different Repetition (7 min.), Especulações em torno da palavra punk! / Searching the punk word (7 min.). 2006: Amor à flor de lá / The Outside Flower (5 min.), Lingua de Brincar / Play my Tongue (70 min.). 2007: Pequena Abertura Para o Deserto / The Desert Window (5 min.), Redemoinho-Poema / The Hurricane Poem (50 min.). 2008: Cães da Vizinhança / Street Dogs (5 min.), Enfim sós / Lonely then (5 min.). 2009: O Crepúsculo dos ídolos / The Twilight of the Idle (3 min.), Proposição 24 / Proposition 24 (24 min.). 2010: Marisqueiras do Cabuçu / Sea Them (9 min.). 2011: Arrebentação / Ties (8 min.). 2012: Rio do Meu Cabelo / My River Hair (with 'Sara não tem nome', 1 min.). 2013: Oceanne (with Anne Santos, 5 min.). 2014: Sonho de Sara / Dream of Sara (with ' Sara não tem nome', 8 min.), Ruína / Ruin (14 min., Forum Expanded 2016). 2015: Digitaria ex Machina (23 min.). 2016: We are Dreamers (with 'Sara não tem nome', 5 min.). 2017: Noise (14 min.), Eu sou o Rio / I am the River (with Anne Santos, 78 min., Forum Expanded 2018). 2022: Diários de uma Paisagem / Landscape Diaries (with Anne Santos, 56 min.). 2023: Aqui jaz o teu Esquema / Here Lies Your Scheme (80 min.), Sumidouro / Nada Continua / Sinkhole / Nothing Continues (with Diana Sandes, 6 min.). 2025: Cartas do Absurdo / Letters from Absurd.
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