{"id":31938,"title":"Vera Cruz","dimensions":"00:44:00","date_begin":"2000-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Vermelho","cached_tag_list":"90s","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":14,"permalink":"vera-cruz","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/219/medium_500/csm_renno_6a72bf0f23.jpg?1654110515","cached_actor_names":"Rosângela Rennó","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/219/large/csm_renno_6a72bf0f23.jpg?1654110515","poster_credits":"(c)Rosângela Rennó","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVera Cruz\u003c/em\u003e is an experimental film that began with the idea of making an imaginary documentary about the April 1500 conquering of Brazil by Portuguese conquistadors. Based on the famous letter sent by the explorer Pero Vaz de Caminha to King Manuel I of Portugal, one of the very few documents about the discovery, \u003cem\u003eVera Cruz\u003c/em\u003e is presented as an \u0026lsquo;impossible film\u0026rsquo;; impossible because the event predated the invention of film by several centuries and thus no recording existed; impossible because all we have is one man\u0026rsquo;s subjective report; and because dialogue between the Portuguese and the Indians could not have happened. We see only image of film stock that has gradually degraded over 500 years. The verbal report of the journey across the Atlantic has also worn away to be replaced by fragmented subtitles. Moving between fiction and documentary, only the evocative sound of the sea and the wind remain constant.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVera Cruz\u003c/em\u003e is een experimentele film die ontstond vanuit het idee een denkbeeldige documentaire te maken over de inname van Brazili\u0026euml; op 22 april 1500 door Portugese veroveraars. \u003cem\u003eVera Cruz\u003c/em\u003e \u0026ndash; gebaseerd op de beroemde brief van ontdekkingsreiziger Pero Vaz de Caminha aan koning Manuel I van Portugal, een van de weinige documenten over de \u0026lsquo;ontdekking\u0026rsquo; van Brazili\u0026euml; \u0026ndash; wordt gepresenteerd als een \u0026lsquo;onmogelijke film\u0026rsquo;. Onmogelijk, omdat de gebeurtenis eeuwen v\u0026ograve;\u0026ograve;r de uitvinding\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nvan de film plaatsvond en er dus uiteraard geen opname van bestaat; onmogelijk, omdat we alleen het subjectieve rapport van \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n man hebben. Onmogelijk ten slotte omdat een dialoog tussen de Portugezen en de Indianen nooit had kunnen plaatsvinden. We zien slechts filmmateriaal dat zogezegd in de loop van 500 jaar geleidelijk werd aangevreten. Het verbale verslag van de reis over de Atlantische Oceaan is ook aangetast door de tijd en werd vervangen door gefragmenteerde ondertitels. De film bevindt zich ergens tussen fictie en documentaire in; alleen het suggestieve geluid van de zee en de wind zijn een constante.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eVera Cruz est un film exp\u0026eacute;rimental, n\u0026eacute; de la volont\u0026eacute; de r\u0026eacute;aliser un documentaire imaginaire sur la conqu\u0026ecirc;te du Br\u0026eacute;sil par les conquistadors portugais en avril 1500. S\u0026rsquo;appuyant sur une lettre c\u0026eacute;l\u0026egrave;bre, envoy\u0026eacute;e par l\u0026rsquo;explorateur Pero Vaz de Caminha au roi Manuel Ier du Portugal \u0026ndash; un des tr\u0026egrave;s rares documents de cette \u0026eacute;pop\u0026eacute;e \u0026ndash;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nVera Cruz est pr\u0026eacute;sent\u0026eacute; comme un \u0026laquo; film impossible \u0026raquo;. Impossible d\u0026rsquo;une part parce que l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;v\u0026eacute;nement est ant\u0026eacute;rieur de plusieurs si\u0026egrave;cles \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;invention du film et qu\u0026rsquo;il n\u0026rsquo;existait donc aucun moyen de l\u0026rsquo;enregistrer. Impossible d\u0026rsquo;autre part car le seul t\u0026eacute;moignage est le rapport subjectif d\u0026rsquo;un homme. Impossible, enfin, parce que le\u003cbr /\u003e\r\ndialogue entre les peuples Portugais et Indiens n\u0026rsquo;a pas pu avoir lieu. Nous ne voyons que des images de pellicules qui se sont progressivement d\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute;rior\u0026eacute;es pendant 500 ans. Le r\u0026eacute;cit verbal du voyage au-del\u0026agrave; de l\u0026rsquo;Atlantique s\u0026rsquo;est \u0026eacute;galement effac\u0026eacute; pour \u0026ecirc;tre remplac\u0026eacute; par des fragments de sous-titres. Oscillant entre fiction et documentaire, seul le son \u0026eacute;voquant la mer et le vent demeure constant.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}