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Ugly, Me?

2013 · 70 min

A restless, collage-like experiment that drifts between performance fragments and philosophical musings, rewarding patience but rarely offering a conventional story to hold onto.

Directed by
Helena Ignez
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Starring
Helô Beck, Thaïs Dahas, Ramon de Angeli
Overview
Ugly, Me? is a film manifesto made from a workshop for actors called Characters in Search of a Movie, in 'La pa', 'Rio De Janeiro', extended to Paris and 'Kerala' (India). Multifaceted like a kaleidoscope, the characters appear in multi-screens scenes and sequences. The images were captured with different kinds of cameras and Ugly, Me? uses this sign of the variety imposed by independent production as language experimentation. Transposing the boundaries of style, Ugly, Me? navigates in a sea of metaphors, philosophical and musical politics, from Prince Harry to Heraclitus, going through a series of authors like Rimbaud, Brecht, Nietzsche, Bispo do Rosario and Eduardo Viveiros DE Castro, capturing a contradictory and original country.

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Directed by
Helena Ignez
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Starring
Helô Beck, Thaïs Dahas, Ramon de Angeli
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    • identity
    • art
    • politics
    • madness
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    • nonlinear
    • ensemble
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    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    Horror1
    Humour3
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    Complexity8
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    Genres
    documentary, drama
    Directed by
    Helena Ignez
    Written by
    Helena Ignez
    Starring
    Helô Beck, Thaïs Dahas, Ramon de Angeli, Luciana Froes, Maíra Gerstner, Helena Ignez, Sandro Karnas, Peter Kronos
    Cinematography
    Eurydice da Silva, Vitor Kruter
    Runtime
    70 min
    Country
    Brazil
    Languages
    Portuguese

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