Following the movements of ten people from different social and cultural backgrounds in São Paulo, the filmmaker redraws the map of South America's largest metropolis. It is the railway tracks, the taxi routes and the underground lines that both structure the city and reveal its rhythm, its daily rituals and the diversity of cultures that live within it.

Tramas

Transparent Roads delivers the physical sensations of a bus trip - it's so realistic it becomes ironic at times - and portrays Brazil's human variety in a series of encounters. The landscapes seen through the windows, the restaurants on the road, the testimonies of common and awfully endearing people are so touching because they don't correspond to the stereotypes we have about this country.

Strade trasparenti

The "water roads" are at times the only practicable roads across the Amazonian forest. Even for the local inhabitants, life along the river means keeping it navigable and protecting it from the environmental damage caused by deforestation. Augusto Contento brings a light, lyrical touch to a world fast disappearing, never straying from the river itself, in an unusual road movie that rides Brazil's majestic watery highways and gives voice to a profusion of enough scholars, river dwellers, and travelers to do a magical South American novel proud.

Roads of Water

Director Augusto Contento renders a documentary portrait of Chicago's underground music scene during the 1990s, interviewing many of the era's stars. The city itself is an integral part of the story, strongly affecting the musicians who work there.

Parallax Sounds

Journal de Bord d'un Bateau fantôme is a silent science-fiction movie. Traveling to discover a new planet, a new world. It's like if for the first time a (human?) being makes the first footstep on a new orb. The new planet is The Earth, Amazonian Region. Their inhabitants appear to us in their daily life, without any possibility for us to really understand what they are doing, because they look like aliens. Journal is a film about the Others, about the idea of The Other. It's about the Man.

Journal de Bord d'un Bateau fantôme

People of a volcanic island 'Stromboli' share their memory of beautiful actress Ingrid Bergman starred in Stromboli directed by Rossellini. Their testimonies describe relations around Stromboli . Movie scenes and the island's scenary are crossed, enriching life and art.