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Acts of Men
(Atos dos Homens)
followed by Antonio das Mortes
Introduction by critic Jean-Philippe Tessé
Saturday July 4/ 2009

At: the National Gallery of Art

North of Rio de Janeiro, the towns of Brazil’s coastal Baixada Fluminense are notorious for vigilantism, “clean-up campaigns” that have been running wild
for nearly a half-century. As Acts of Men tours the once picturesque Baixada,
the filmmakers find remnants of recent attacks, fearful relatives of former
victims (speaking in off-camera interviews), and evidence of police participation
in the general mayhem.
(Kiko Goifman, 2006, 35 mm, Portuguese with
subtitles, 76 minutes)


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