Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?

A contemplative, essayistic stroll through early cinema and archival fragments, rewarding patient viewers with poetic associations rather than narrative momentum.

Directed by

Carlos Adriano

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Alberto Santos Dumont, Charles Rolls, Bernardo Vorobow

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.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and whimsical. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, art, technology, exploration

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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