The film Olho da Rua (2022), by Jonathas de Andrade, will be screened at the cinema of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, in Copenhagen, from April 3 to June 8, 2025. The screening is part of the institution’s ongoing program of artist films, with free admission.
De Andrade’s artistic approach is inspired by the Theatre of the Oppressed, created by Brazilian writer and playwright Augusto Boal. The film stages a series of performative actions in one of the city’s public squares, highlighting collective dynamics within the urban space and the gazes through which we observe one another. Blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, the artist engages a cast of non-professional actors in discussions about identity, care, family, class consciousness, and social and political visibility, through actions and words. Without a fixed script, the narrative is carried by the personalities and emotional worlds of the participants themselves, creating a powerful testimony of contemporary Brazil, with its rich and diverse culture, and deep structural inequalities.
The screening is part of the museum’s film program, which invites artists to explore cinematic language as a means of aesthetic and social experimentation.
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