17/09 Brazilian Film ‘Viramundo’ FREE

29 Aug, 2013

CINEMA 6.30pm Cineclub ‘ Viramundo’ @ Brazilian Embassy (Embassy of Brazil in London, 14-16 Cockspur Street, SW1Y 5BL)+info: 020 7747 4500 FREE ‘ The documentary also shows music from indigenous communities, which face a constant struggle for survival in the new, modern, digital era. Within his visits to poor communities, alongside some local personalities Gilberto Gil discusses the problem of ‘racialisation’ of people, making reference to ‘the need to escape a certain discourse that characterised Manichean struggle of the past’. In his visits in Brazil, mainly he looks at and verifies the situation of ‘cultural points’, a project which he intiated during his ministry time, taking technology and culture to isolated and marginalised groups within society. The film begins with the singer arriving in his birth place, Salvador in Bahia, a region which he claims to have overcome the problem by similar and consistent events such as Carnaval, Candomblé and the strong musical expression found in the area (…)’  by Fernanda Franco Read the review here