Jogos Dirigidos

Directed Games

Forum Expanded 2020

Jogos Dirigidos creates a language experience. In the Várzea Queimada community, located in the Sertão of Piauí, the backcountry of the northeastern Brazilian state, a place with about 900 inhabitants and a high rate of deaf population, access to water and public investment is scarce, as is the learning of Libras, the official Brazilian sign language. In the face of all these limitations, Várzea Queimada’s deaf community created their own language.
The film features body and speech exercises and an improvised outdoor stage for spontaneous testimonials from a group of 18 local characters, men and women. Most of the statements, many of them untranslated, are revised phrase by phrase, linking gestures to words and systematizing Várzea Queimada’s gestural lexicon as if we were facing an educational video that teaches a new language, beyond its universe and its own questions.

by Jonathas de Andrade
with Celina Barbosa de Carvalho, Claudiana Barbosa de Carvalho, Denilson de Carvalho, Elizabete Isabel da Cruz Barbosa, Francisco Antonio da Silva, Gildeto Silva Batista, Irene Joana da Silva, Laise de Araujo Barros, Manoel Franscisco de Carvalho, Reginaldo Joao Barbosa Brazil 2019 Portuguese 26’ Colour Documentary form

With

Celina Barbosa de Carvalho
Claudiana Barbosa de Carvalho
Denilson de Carvalho
Elizabete Isabel da Cruz Barbosa
Francisco Antonio da Silva
Gildeto Silva Batista
Irene Joana da Silva
Laise de Araujo Barros
Manoel Franscisco de Carvalho
Reginaldo Joao Barbosa

Crew

Written and Directed by	Jonathas de Andrade
Cinematography	Ivo Lopes
Montage	Tita, Fábio Costa Menezes
Music	Homero Basilio
Sound Design	Mauricio D'Orey
Sound	Rafael Travassos
Production Design	Priscila Gonzaga
Production Manager	Vanessa Barbosa
Producer	Jonathas de Andrade
Commissioned by	Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Produced by

Jonathas de Andrade

Jonathas de Andrade

Jonathas de Andrade, born in 1982 in Maceió, Brazil, lives and works in Recife. He uses photography, installation, and video to traverse collective memory and history, making use of strategies that shuffle fiction and reality. He collects and catalogues architecture, images, texts, life stories and recomposes a personal narrative of the past. His work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions in museums and art institutions.

Filmography

2010 4000 disparos (4000 shots); 60 min. · Pacifico; 12 min. 2014 O Levante (The Uprising); 8 min. 2016 O caseiro (The Housekeeper); 12 min. · O peixe (The Fish); 37 min. 2017 Voyeristico (Voyeuristic); 4 min. 2019 Jogos Dirigidos (Directed Games); 26 min.

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020