Titles by Eder Santos
- A Europa em 5 Minutos (Europe in Five Minutes)
- Essa Coisa Nervosa
- Framed by Curtains
- Intriguing People (Enredando As Pessoas)
- Janauba
- Mentiras & Humilhações (Lies & Humiliations)
- Não Vou À África Porque Tenho Plantão (I Cannot Go to Africa Because I Am on Duty)
- Neptune's Choice
- Projeto Apollo
- Rito e Expressao (Rite & Expression)
- Tumitinhas
- UAKTI-Bolero
Mentiras & Humilhações (Lies & Humiliations)
Lies & Humiliations is a haunting and lyrical work that merges poetic language and Super-8 images to invoke memory and its ghosts. Infused with an almost ethereal light, images of a house evoke its past — an old-fashioned kitchen and dining room, an ancient roof. Visions that recall childhood memories are superimposed like apparitions onto images of the present. Spoken in voiceover, a Carlos Drumond de Andrade poem, LIQUIDACAO/Special Sale, becomes a denunciatory litany that emphasizes the past's inability to cope with the future: "The house was sold, with/All its remembrances/All its furniture/All its nightmares/All its committed sins/Or those about to be..."
In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Poem: Carlos Drumond de Andrade. Translator: Aecio Santos. Script: Éder Santos, Marcus Nascimento. Music: Stephen Vitiello, James Kavoussi. Director/Editor: Éder Santos.
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