Brazilogy: T-Shirt Cantata, Adventures of the Amazon Queen, and The Hammock Variations DVD
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James Bogan
Arts, Language and Philosophy Department
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Diogenes Leal
Casa Estudos Germanicos
Federal University of Para -- Belem, Brazil
These three poetic documentaries were shot over the past twenty years in and
around the mouth of the Amazon in Belem, Brazil. Each is an offbeat portrait
of life in Brazil, as well as “a pretext to show the beautiful people of the
Amazon. The combined length of these short films is just under an hour.
- The
T-Shirt Cantata is a walk on the Belem streets, a Whitmanic overture.
- The
Adventures of the Amazon Queen tells the story of the construction of
the model boat, the Amazon Queen, made from palm stalks by an artisan
who lives on a tributary of Earth's greatest river. He launches the brave
little boat in a spring and off she goes around a bend bound for the Atlantic
Ocean. Alligators,
boa constrictors, and other hazards of the jungle lurk downstream.
- The Hammock
Variations concerns the cultural significance of the hammock to the
people of Brazil. It is a meditation on the nature of life from birth to
death and is just as much about the symbolic musings in the poetic narration
as it is about the actual facts of the hammock.
Keywords
- South America
- Travel
- Film
- Art
- Creation
- Artist
- Boat builder
- Weaver
- Poet
- Fables
Pages
DVD21, new August 2007
