João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unknown. These encounters affect him and slowly begin to reveal a play of time frames which blends together life and creative process, present and memory.
Direction
Gotardo directs himself through emotional archaeology.
Editing
Seamless slippage between present encounter and performed memory.
Writing
Conversations that feel stolen from actual hookups.
Director
Caetano Gotardo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Brazilian slow cinema exploring queer male intimacy after the end of military censorship, but deliberately rejecting the hustler melodrama template of earlier decades.
The title references a Clarice Lispector fragment about seeing and being seen—Gotardo's script originally included her texts as dialogue before he wrote his own.
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