Live cine-concert / Audiovisual performance
CINE RABECA is a multimedia performance, a cine-concerto (film concert), a documentary expanded onto the stage where music brings archives back to life and the editing reflects on time, memory, disappearances, and the continuous making of images. On stage, musicians Luiz Paixão and Renata Rosa reunite cinematographically with their own trajectories, improvising toadas with their rabecas and recreating themselves in memories.
CINE RABECA is a multimedia performance, a cine-concerto (film concert), a documentary expanded onto the stage where music brings archives back to life and the editing reflects on time, memory, disappearances, and the continuous making of images. On stage, musicians Luiz Paixão and Renata Rosa reunite cinematographically with their own trajectories, improvising toadas with their rabecas and recreating themselves in memories.
Luiz Paixão and Renata Rosa, partners since 1998 in the musical poetics of the Zona da Mata Norte region of Pernambuco, are seated side by side on a single bench at center stage. Behind them, a film projects their own life stories, composed from film archives produced by anthropologist and documentarist Marcia Mansur in the 2000s and ethnomusicologist John Murphy in the 1990s.
Paixão and Rosa were invited to create a new sound interpretation of the documentary archive and compose the live soundtrack. During the performances, film narrative and live music merge into a unique experience at every show, shaped by the emotions awakened through glimpses of the archive.
The show was developed during a residency at the Núcleo de Estudos Contemporâneos of the Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo and premiered at Sesc Guarulhos and Sesc Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, 2019.
Directed and Produced by: Marcia Mansur
Musical Direction: Renata Rosa
With: Luiz Paixão and Renata Rosa
Script: Luisa Pitanga / Marcia Mansur
Editing: Iolanda Depizzol / Marcia Mansur
Editing Assistant: Guilherme Leandro
Sound Mixing and Design: Guilherme Destro
Sound Mastering: Daniel Teixeira
Musical Direction: Renata Rosa
With: Luiz Paixão and Renata Rosa
Script: Luisa Pitanga / Marcia Mansur
Editing: Iolanda Depizzol / Marcia Mansur
Editing Assistant: Guilherme Leandro
Sound Mixing and Design: Guilherme Destro
Sound Mastering: Daniel Teixeira
Award: Best Medium-Length Film at the 8th Arquivo em Cartaz Festival (Rio de Janeiro, November 2022)
International distribution: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI - UK)
Festivals:
— 13th In-Edit International Music Documentary Festival (Premiere, June 2022)
— Pierre Verger Award at the 33rd Brazilian Anthropology Meeting’s Ethnographic Film Showcase (August 2022)
— 10th Ethnological Documentary Film Festival Kratovo (European Premiere, Macedonia, October 2022)
— 9th Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival (Greece, 2023)
— 14th Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (Canada, North American Premiere, May 2023)
Presented at:
— Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo
— Sesc Avenida Paulista
— Sesc Guarulhos
— Farol Santander Porto Alegre
— Sesc Santos
— Pierre Verger Award at the 33rd Brazilian Anthropology Meeting’s Ethnographic Film Showcase (August 2022)
— 10th Ethnological Documentary Film Festival Kratovo (European Premiere, Macedonia, October 2022)
— 9th Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival (Greece, 2023)
— 14th Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (Canada, North American Premiere, May 2023)
Presented at:
— Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo
— Sesc Avenida Paulista
— Sesc Guarulhos
— Farol Santander Porto Alegre
— Sesc Santos
Photo: Marina Thomé
Photo: José de Holanda