Who are rockers Zé Pedro and Daniel Darc? Why is the bass player for the Rolling Stones the archivist of the group? What is the story of the Cavern Club where the Beatles started? Who is the projectionist friend of Abel Ferrara? What did film critic Pauline Kael write? What kind of film feminist activism invented Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig? Discover Marie Losier portrait of musician Felix Kubin. Meet Chilean queer activist and visual artist Lemebel. Remember Lil Peep, the prince of the emo trap scene. How did Miloš Forman become a Hollywood acclaimed director? Listen to documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho, to the story of one of the contributors to the birth of Bossa Nova, Dorival Caymmi, and to the words of poet Sophia de Mello Breyner. Move your bodies with choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jérôme Bel.
The film by Josafá Veloso opens with images from Últimas Conversas. Edited and completed posthumously, it would be Eduardo Coutinho’s last film. Banquete Coutinho feeds on what the director said during an interview where he shared ideas and memories on film making, one of which is the troubled origin of the film Cabra Marcado para morrer, the result of footage for another project initiated 17 years before and halted by the 1964 military coup.
Daniel Johnston made our world more interesting by letting us into his. We present two films that journey through his life, his demons and his angels. Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston? revisits the making of his 1983 album, meeting psychedelic dreams, nightmares and characters from his past along the way. In The Angel and Daniel Johnston: Live at the Union Chapel, we walk with his music and words.
Heart Beat presents a special screening, intersecting even more deeply film and music. First, we’ll have the film Mistérios Negros, by Pedro Lino, with live music by composer Philippe Lenzini. Then follows the documentary cinematic performance O Intendente é um Lugar Psicológico, with Tiago Pereira and Sílvio Rosado combining images and music live, and portraying out of memories a neighbourhood that still resists.
