O insigne ficante

In the margins of the Boca was a subversive diarist, a fly on the wall whose free-flowing Super-8 works cast Rogério Sganzerla, Carlos Reichenbach, José Mojica Marins and dozens of others from São Paulo’s film communities; sometimes straightforwardly documenting bar conversations with these luminaries and sometimes launching off into more digressive, even fictive pathways inspired by those same conversations.
Remaining invisible – Ferreira’s Super-8 films were always shown clandestinely – The Vampire of the Cinematheque and The Insig Nificant suggest cine-clubism as its own art of invention, not to mention a subversive response to military oppression. As a cheeky homage to pornochanchada, for example, The Vampire shows us a close-up of a man masturbating. And in another part, an inaudible piece of recited poetry by Orlando Parolini is interrupted with Ferreira informing the audience in voice-over that Kodak is cheapening the sound quality of its Super-8 stock. Honest and intimate, Ferreira offers a secret history of the Boca. The Insig Nificant screens in combination with The Vampire of the Cinematheque.

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