Within the context of the Berlinale, I co-curated a Forum Expanded section focused on the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica. Neville D’Almeida, interview with author, Berlinale 2013, 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, February 8, 2013. Reflecting on the making of Mangue-Bangue almost forty years after its first screening in New York in 1973, the Brazilian director Neville D’Almeida remarked, “I wanted to make a film with all those things I had never seen in cinema before.”Neville D’Almeida: “Eu queria colocar no cinema as coisas 1 que eu nunca vi no cinema.” Translation by author. Preserved with funding from the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund Introducing humorous or odd figures in place of the heroic, revolutionary male protagonist and confronting the spectator with explicit scenes of genitalia, defecation, and drug use, the film was never released upon completion due to the explicit nature of its content and disappeared for several decades until it reappeared in the Collection of MoMA in 2006. Shot in 1970 in Mangue, Rio de Janeiro’s poorest red-light district, and the city’s financial district, Neville D’Almeida’s Mangue-Bangue, presents a portrait of the “normality” of marginalized and criminalized bodies during Brazil’s military dictatorship.
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