the movie

synopsis

Frans Krajcberg prepares to exhibit his work at the São Paulo Art Biennial while unfolds his memories and inner experiences. Recently deceased, Krajcberg’s life was a relentless struggle against the destructive madness of men, from the fires of the Second World War to those of the burning Amazon rainforest. A breathtaking fate of an extraordinary man caught in history, engaged in art and deeply alive forever.

regina jehá

Filmmaker and executive partner of Lauper Films, Regina Jehá graduated from São Paulo University in Social Sciences and Cinema. She specialized in documentary at Paris VII University Denis Diderot, and also attended the Résidence d'Écriture Documentaire, Ardèche Images in Lussas, France. She directed films such as Curumins & Cunhantãs (Berlinale, Visions du Réel and Oberhausen), Encanto (Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Clermont-Ferrand and Bilan du Film Ethnographique) and Expedição Viva Marajó (FIPA, Ischia and Latin-American SP Film Festival), among others. Besides her work as director, Jehá was president of the Brazilian Documentary Association and International Director for GTDoc-Apaci, specific group of a Filmmaker Association in São Paulo. Curator of several exhibitions, she coordinated “Documentary, Expanded Territory”, a successful event in Brazil last year. Currently, her documentary Frans Krajcberg: Manifesto, is in post-production stage - to be released in 2018, and her new project Precious Tree, in development fundraising stage.

directors note

Evoking the disasters provoked by a neglected environmental agenda of the Brazilian government, “Frans Krajcberg: Manifesto" claims against the distortions and aggressions on the Amazonian rain forest calling for an urgent anthropological mutation of mankind for a new Renaissance. Moreover, "Manifesto" talks about the conceptual chaos in the contemporary art and proposes a new process of appropriation of reality linked to a special sense of nature. The narrative follows the memories and reflections of Krajcberg with no chronological timeline. This is the realm of inner experiences of the artist. The film displays a profound and confident relationship between main character and interviewer, based on a relationship of more than 35 years of friendship between them.