Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City (1968)

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

1968

Documentary

Synopsis

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

Credits

Director

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast

Ferreira Gullar as Narrator (voice)

Crew

João Carlos Horta (Assistant Camera)

Jean-Claude Bernardet (Assistant Director)

Affonso Beato (Director of Photography)

Renato Neumann (Editor)

Joel Barcellos (Production Manager)

Jean-Claude Bernardet (Writer)