A student revolutionary traded his gun for a camera—then vanished into history.
Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.
Direction
Estrada treats archives like crime scene evidence.
Production
Rare 16mm footage smuggled from Cuban exile.
Director
Vicente Duque Estrada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1968 Brazil saw hundreds of student leaders 'disappear'—most into graves, a rare few into cinema. Medeiros represents the uncanny third option.
Director Estrada spent three years in Cuban film archives negotiating access; the 12 minutes of Medeiros footage nearly cost him his visa.
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