In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

Ferreira Gullar
Narrator (voice)

The End of Summer
The End of Summer

Weegee's New York
Weegee's New York

Land Without Bread
Land Without Bread

Las Hurdes, país de leyenda
Las Hurdes, país de leyenda

The Unfinished Journey
The Unfinished Journey
Counterparts
Counterparts

Paris in the Belle Epoque
Paris in the Belle Epoque

Viva El Vedado
Viva El Vedado
Man Who Chooses the Bush
Man Who Chooses the Bush

The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...
The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...

Gay Rights
Gay Rights

White Earth
White Earth