Hunger For Love: Have You Ever Sunbathed Completely Nude? (Fome de Amor: Você nunca tomou sol inteiramente nua?) at Carpenter Center
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Details:
Sunday May 6 at 5pm
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Hunger For Love: Have You Ever Sunbathed Completely Nude? (Fome de Amor: Você nunca tomou sol inteiramente nua?)
Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. With Leila Diniz, Arduíno Colasanti, Irene Stefânia
Brazil 1968, 35mm, b/w, 76 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo.