"Nizza-Nice-Nike are sonorous modulations of a name. The name of a goddess. A
Greek goddess who crowned the victorious. Nietzsche visited this city, he
admired its luminosity, its sky, the Bay of Angels, he experienced dramatic
moments: he felt the tremendous earthquake that killed roughly two thousand
people and destroyed part of the city; in a piazza, in a fountain, he glimpsed
his idea of 'extra-European,' he walked though the ruins of Camiez; he wrote
Songs of Prince Vogelfrei in a room of a pension which was partially destroyed
by the earthquake; he saw the name Dostoevskij for the first time in a literary
magazine… The sun, the light, the light that comes to us, our music, sparks of a
stubborn flight: the letter "V" etched in the glass of a train's window, a
welcoming sign sent to him by Chance; the drop of water, a true spirit-like
crystal, toasts, proposed by the welcoming fountain; Carmen, as we wait in the
Theater; the ghost windows, a station (gare) of phantoms; chimera of chimera,
surviving images of a collapse in time… Rosa Dias, once again, was my guide, she
made sure I followed her, along this bit of Nietzsche's Nice. Her faith
discovered the fountain in Place des Phoceans, in front of the philosopher's
room, a fountain that is still intact, unrestored, barely touched by Time that
leaves its mark on the stone Tritons in this fountain-pathos… 'That was the
strange mountain-like labyrinth of the souls.' (Rilke) The feet of Nietzsche the
walker begin to accelerate the steps of the dance that will soon dissolve him
into another, then into another, and then into yet another divine meeting…" (J.
Bressane)
Biography
film director
Julio Bressane
Julio Bressane was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1946. As an adolescent, he frequented the haunts of the nascent Cinema Novo, establishing ties with Paulo Cezar Saraceni, Glauber Rocha and Leon Hirszman. At 19 years of age, he was assistant to Walter Lima Jr. for the film Menino de Engheno and then later to Fernando Campos for A Viagem. He debuted as a director in 1965 with the short film Lima Barreto: Trajetória. O Anjo Naceu and Matou a Familia e foi ao Cinema are received as a break with Cinema Novo. Cinema Marginal or "udigrudi". The term was never recognized by his esponents. In 1970, with Rogerìo Sganzerla and Helena Ignez, he founds the production house Belair, whose activity is brusquely interrupted by the military dictatorship, which forces the three founders into exile. Bressane lives a few years abroad, mainly in London and New York, he travels to Morocco and in Asia until 1973, when he returns to Brazil. Over the past few years, after a long period of ostracism by international festivals, his films have been presented with growing success in Taormina, Venice, Turin and Rotterdam. In 2002, the Torino Film Festival presented a complete retrospective of the Brazilian director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lima Barreto: Trajetória (1965-1966), Bethânia Bem de Perto (1966), Elis Regina (1966, film perduto), Cara a Cara (1967), O Anjo Nasceu (1969), Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969), Barão Olavo, o Horrível (1970), A Miss e o Dinosauro (1970, film perduto), Cuidado Madame (1970), Memórias de um Estrangulador de Louras/Memories of a Blonde Strangler (1971), Amor Louco/Crazy Love (1971), A Fada do Oriente (1972, film perduto), Lágrima Pantera (1972, film perduto), O Rei do Baralho (1973); Viagem Através do Brasil I (1973-1974), Viagem Através do Brasil II (1973-1974), Viagem Através do Brasil III (1973-1974-1975), O Monstro Caraíba - Nova História Antiga do Brasil (1975), Viola Chinesa - Meu Encontro com o Cinema Brasileiro (1975), A Agonia (1976), O Gigante da América (1976), Cidade Pagã (1979), Cinema inocente (1980), Tabu (1982), Brás Cubas (1985), Sob o Céu, Sob o Sol, Salvador (1987), Sermões - A História de António Vieira (1989), Quem seria o Feliz Conviva de Isadora Duncan? (1992), Galáxia Albina (1992), Infernalário: Logodédalo - Galaxia Dark (1993), O Cinema do Cinema - Criação e Recriação da Imagem no Filme Cinematográfico (1993), Antonioni - Hitchcock: A Imagen em Fuga (1993), As Canções que Vôce fez pra Mim (1994), O Mandarim (1995), Miramar (1997), São Jerônimo (1998), Dias de Nietzsche em Turim (2001), Nietszche in Nice, Filme de Amor (2003).