20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Cinema and Art: Brazil

Enigma de um dia

One-Day Enygma

Country: Brazil

Year:

Duration: 17'

The images show us a metaphysical universe populated by uninhabited architecture which calls to mind the atmosphere of the paintings by Giorgio De Chirico. The film has no commentary, rather, the photography follows a bicycle rider across piazzas, train tracks, clock towers, in a dream-like narration.

FILM DIRECTOR

CAST & CREDITS

Biography

film director

Joel Pizzini

Joel Pizzini (Rio de Janeiro, 1960), director and poet, has made numerous films that dialog with images and poetry. In 1990 he directed his first short film, Caramujo Flor, which won at the Festival di Huelva, in Spain. In 1992 the Spanish government awarded him a prize for his screenplay of A Pedra na Paisagem, based on a poem by the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto. In 1996 O Enigma de um Dia won numerous prizes at various Brazilian Festivals and participated at the Festivals in Venice and Rotterdam. In 2002 he directed Glauces: Study of a Face, a documentary about the film career of the Brazilian actress Glauce Rocha, which won at the Festival in Brasilia.

FILMOGRAFIA

Caramujo Flor (Snail Flower, cm, 1990), Crystal Ball (1990), A Pedra na Paisagem (Stone in the Landscape, 1992), O Enigma de um Dia (The Enigma of a Day, cm, 1996), 500 Almas (doc., 2001), Glauces: Study of a Face (doc., 2002).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Joel Pizzini.
Plot: Joel Pizzzini, SÈrgio Medeiros.
Director of photography: M·rio Carneiro.
Editor: Id' Lacreta.
Music: Lívio Tragtenberg.
Sound: Luis Adelmo.
Production company: PÛlo Cinematogr·fica, Filmart, Paleo TV.