CONCRETE LANDSCAPE

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PAISAGEM CONCRETA

By Luiz FERRAZ, Laura ARTIGAS

OLÉ PRODUÇÕES - as PROD / FIN

Documentary - Completed 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography, Art - Culture
- Countries
- PORTUGAL, BRAZIL
- Languages
- PORTUGUESE
- Duration
- 74 mn
- Director(s)
- Luiz FERRAZ, Laura ARTIGAS
- Writer(s)
- Laura ARTIGAS
- Producer(s)
- Gal BUITONI (Olé Produções)
- Synopsis
- In Porto Alegre, Brazil, the Iberê Camargo Foundation Museum; in the city of Porto, Portugal, the office of Álvaro Siza, architect and author of the celebrated project for the institution's headquarters, inaugurated in 2008. The documentary “Concrete Landscape" sails between these two ports. On the edge of Douro River, Siza, between one cigarette and another, details the design of the museum, and his affective relationship with Brazil, sown since childhood in the accounts of his father born in Belém (PA), cultivated by modernism, MPB and by the novels. It also elaborates on the limits between architecture and nature, accompanied by a visual tour of celebrated works such as Piscinas das Marés, the Architecture University of Porto and the Nadir Afonso Museum, by testimonials from Portuguese collaborators and critics.
  Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, the backstage of the assembly of the exhibition “Fio de Ariadne” is presented, an unprecedented exhibition of ceramics and tapestries by Iberê Camargo, the reflection of collaborators of the Iberê Foundation and contemporary architects on the future of this concrete landscape on the edge of the Guaíba River.