By Libertad Gills

As I edited this video, I explored and found other characteristics to this image of collectivity, including its similarity to forms of play, as a kind of pact or contract between the participating individuals. In this sense, while in Mendonça Filho’s films the collective is often an ideal, and differences in class, gender and age are subdued, Uchôa renders visible the effort that goes into being part of a collective.

By Monica Delgado

In Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika, 1952), Ingmar Bergman proposes a series of resources to describe a pessimistic story of confrontation between the city and the countryside, youth and the heaviness of adult life; working life and bourgeois enjoyment without guilt.