FABRICATING TOM ZE

We either command our lives or end up being commanded by it. Before you notice, daily life takes over and all we do is repeat tasks without thinking. The short film tells the story of a woman who lets go of the reins on her life.

Lourenço buys used good from desperate locals, which leads him to play a perverted game with them. In a causal meeting, Lourenço finds himself having to deal with a woman by using a tool he had long since forgotten about: affection. Bothered by the symbolic and disgusting smell emanating from a drain in his store, [...]

She Dreamed That I Died is a inverted portrait of the phenomenon of globalization narrated by imprisoned foreigners in Brazil. The documentary is a delicate collection of life experiences, its dramaturgy being centered around people’s touching capability of telling their own stories.