
Bressane,aleadingnameinprogressiveBraziliancinemaforthepastfortyyears,washonouredwitharetrospectiveattheIFFRin2000.HehasmadeamusicallandscapefilmaboutastreetcornerinRiousingphotographsandhisownfilms(shotbetween1957and2005).<br/> InhisfilmRuaAperana52JúlioBressanedescribestheinventionofalandscape,thetopologyofacornerofRiodeJaneiro.Thefilmconsistsofaseriesofphotographstakenbetween1909and1955by,amongothers,Bressane’sparentsatandaroundtheaddressusedasatitle.Theseareinterlardedwithscenesfromfilmsmadebetween1957and2005,bringingthetotalfictionaltimethefilmcoverstoalmostacentury;onehundredyearsinwhichthewindingroadfeaturedinalmosteveryshotstructuresthenewlandscapebehindtheAperana,whichmeans‘wrongroad’.<br/> RuaAperana52isautobiographical,asitisalandscapefromBressane’syouth,butitisalsonotso;itismoreamulti-subjectivemythologyofaplaceseenthroughallthosefilmsandphotographs.Bressanereferstohiseditingasanintuitiveformofthinkingaimedatevokingmoodswhichmaketheviewerthenewwitnessofthefictionallandscape.Afictionaboutafiction.






