In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of contemporary Brazilian film and video that explores relationships between visual art and film, while portraying a playful and poetic perspective on the world. Constructing Views is curated by João Dumans with additional support from Maria Chiaretti, Assistant Curator and Producer.

Free of conventions that imprison the functions of daily life, cinema allows one to experience the utopia of a new space—dreamed or invented—a space susceptible to all types of games, inventions, and conflicts, which respects its own law but does not negate its effect on life and the real world. Constructing Views features a selection of films that is not easily limited by the parameters of traditional cinema. Instead, these works take the form of contemplations, interventions, and performance documentation, comprising three distinct programs of short experimental cinema works produced by Brazilian artists within the last decade. In addition, the series includes three important contemporary independent feature films: Aboio by Marilia Rocha; Andarilho by Cao Guimarães; and Lands by Maya Da-Rin. In these works, a realistic (documentary and factual) approach to the world reconciles itself with invention and fable, underscoring a sensitivity and range of social and historical contexts rarely explored in Brazilian cinema. Common in these works are a creative and productive independence, the refusal to follow formulas, and the impulse to bring new forms and new stories to life on the big screen. This distinct and adventurous approach—as opposed to industrial notions of cinema—has made a major mark on experimental production of Brazilian film in recent years.

Limite (1931), by the pioneering Brazilian experimental filmmaker Mario Peixoto, completes the program. Limite is a work that became legendary not only for its formal qualities, but is also recognized as one of the first major works of Brazilian cinema. Unfortunately, due to conservation issues that have plagued the film for the more forty years, this unknown masterpiece has rarely been seen since its initial release.