92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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Still from High Rise
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Friday Apr 2, 2010 (7:30pm)
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$12.00
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"Effortlessly provokes thoughts on inequality, satisfaction and oblivion."
—LA Weekly
What does it mean to own a penthouse apartment in poverty-plagued Brazil? High-Rise (Um Lugar ao Sol) examines this topic in a hypnotic and revealing examination, blending interviews with nine penthouse residents, owners of enviable killer views of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Recife and a look from below, an overcrowded world that seems to be building on every square inch of land, with nowhere to go but up.
Through these interviews and a poetic visual and sound narrative, High-Rise provides an evocative insight into the "verticalization" of the Brazilian cityscape, deepening our understanding of what drives people to live in penthouses. High-Rise is a film about height, status and power that questions the elite in a way never before shown in Brazilian cinema.
Introduced by Adella Ladjevardi of CinereachDirector:
Gabriel Mascaro. 73 min. 2009. HDCam
