Marcos Bertoni, Super 8 Heroe

The (S8) will have this year an authentic Brazilian Super 8 hero: Marcos Bertoni. Iconoclastic and indomitable collage artist, Marcos Bertoni has been working on his films –based on subversion and humor banking since he was 18 years old. A multifaceted person, discovered by many people thanks to the movie Avanti Pópolo (Michael Wahrmann, 2012) , is not only a filmmaker, but an architect, sculptor, writer, amateur footballer and a specialist in visual effects for film and TV: he  makes the models and mock-ups, the “fake food” of the ads, and has also built objects such as wooden bicycles or reproductions of instruments of the Chinese opera. Bertoni began making films in the late ’70s, driven by the fascination of the projected images and the magic resulting from the contact with celluloid, making films of  double and sharp political sense. Over the years he was led to what he would call “Dogma 2002”: a parody of the Danish Dogma 95, whose motto is: “Filming is not allowed. You can recycle, edit, dub. Always Super 8”. He remixes his own and others’ material wildly and freely, and dubs his films with magnetic strip –he sometimes manipulates the projection on the spot. The Paulista Bertoni does what he pleases and turns scarcity into proud: this is the joyful creativity of film without money.

The session devoted to Bertoni, projected entirely in Super 8, will include his films Cleopatra (1979), Cores (1985), A Revolução das Massas (1983), No Fundo do Poço (2005), Cocô Preto (2003) and Môr (2014). This program, part of the section ‘Segunda vida de las imágenes’, will take place on Saturday June 6 at 5 pm at Afundación Coruña.