Cinema – Stream of Images/Imaginaries – Bodies in Motion: Sound, Struggle, and Social Space
On October 12, Sunday, a screening of the third bloc of the film program Stream of Images/Imaginaries will take place. The event will take place from 3pm to 5pm at the Auditorium in the third floor.
Stream of Images/Imaginaries, the film program of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo highlights connections between Brazil, the Caribbean, and West Africa, bringing together the richness of Brazilian and French cultures in a program of films and related activities, with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Guimarães Rosa Institute, the French Embassy in Brazil, and the Institut français, as part of the France-Brazil Season. The program draws on the historical ties and strong transcontinental relationship and mutual influence between Brazil, the French Caribbean, and West African countries to establish dialogues between contemporary works from the African continent and historical works from the Cinémathèque Afrique collection, as well as films and videos by historical and contemporary artists from Brazil and the French Caribbean. The screenings will be accompanied by conversations with artists, lectures, and performances.
Each block of the program unfolds into a specific theme that will be explored throughout the Bienal, inviting the public to immerse themselves in its curatorial proposals. The block shown on October 12 is entitled Bodies in Motion: Sound, Struggle, and Social Space. It brings together films in which the body becomes both language and battleground, carrying histories, navigating constraints, and claiming space through dance, labor, protest, and ritual. Here, sound is inhabited, and space is shaped by movement. Includes the films: Nossa escola de samba [Our Samba Association] (30’, Manuel Gimenez, 1965), Ughniyat Touha al-Hazina [Sad Song of Touha] (12’, Atteyat Al-Abnoudy, 1973), Lamb: La Lutte (15’, Paulin Vieyra, 1963) and Recife de dentro pra fora [Recife Inside Out] (17’, Katia Mesel, 1997).
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Cinema – Stream of Images/Imaginaries – Bodies in Motion: Sound, Struggle, and Social Space
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
October 12, 2025
Sunday, 3 pm
Auditorium
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Alvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission