From the storytelling monologue:
When I was 16, my closest friend had a tough break up, and I can't believe I am mentioning tough break up and 16 in the same sentence, but it turns out, it really was. She came to my house a few nights after to see me and get some comfort. At the time, I was trying to make my own perfumes and was into aromatherapy. I was working on the latest piece that was supposed to be relaxing and help you with stress -we had quite different approaches to how to spend your adolecence. So, she comes, I leave my bottles aside, and I listen to her. We speak for many hours as we used to. She cries, we hug. I give her my relaxing scent as a gift, and she leaves. The next day her mom calls me from the hospital, she tells me that my friend is here, and she is fine now, but yesterday she swallowed 15 paracetamol tablets. She tried to kill herself. (almost whisper: When she got the diagnosis for depression and the plan for her treatment, she collapsed. She did not want to be that person. A depressed girl that tries to recover. No. But why am I telling you this? Do I want you to feel empathy? I am asking you to think. Now I am the one with the microphone, I control it. And you may be asking yourself why is she telling us that. And why is she whispering? Then good.) After the thing was over, I remember thinking. Oh my god, I really suck at aromatherapy. Maybe I miss calculated something and made a non-relaxing depressive scent, and I almost killed my friend. And the truth is I can never be entirely sure about how something that I give you might affect you -what will the impact be- , regardless if it's a story or a joke or a scent. And I might hate you for asking me to explain myself, “what is it, why do I need it, how did you make it”, but I will always try.
I was reading something that Marshal McLuhan wrote, and it is possible to read, and he describes the cinema's immersion as that your feet are engaged. That is soooo true. I always feel my feet itchy at the movies. And I thought it was a skin condition; apparently, it's the magic of the medium.
Sao Paulo, 2020
Theme: The political body - art and social impact
short documentary luiz’s crackland
the story of a theatre that is situated in the middle of Crackland. This theatre by employing drug addicts and showcasing their art shows us a different way of dealing with addiction as a society.
