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Sky Over Water

1978 · 22 min

A slow, hypnotic drift through sunlit water and bodies, more meditation than story, asking you to surrender to its rhythm.

Directed by
José Agripino de Paula
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Maria Esther Stockler
Overview
in the waters of Arembepe, a woman, sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, a child, and a man, together in an elliptical temporality, harmonize and integrate into the space of nature with an emphatic rhythm. A biographical record of a hippie thesis from one of the popes of tropicalismo.

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Directed by
José Agripino de Paula
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Maria Esther Stockler
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • nature
  • family
  • identity
  • freedom
  • parenthood
Places
  • sea
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism7
Romance3
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
José Agripino de Paula
Starring
Maria Esther Stockler
Runtime
22 min
Country
Brazil

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