Relatório de produção: nunca fale dos mortos

Abstract

The experimental short film Nunca fale dos mortos (Never Speak of the Dead) brings together themes that are open to discussion and reflection within the Brazilian audiovisual scene. First, it represents the process of mourning in the narrative of a character who must deal with the passing of his mother, even though the feelings between the matriarch and her descendant were not positive during her life; second, it presents a discussion about the “fake documentary” format, which combines elements of fiction and the documentary genre as a way of presenting cinematographic works that increasingly blur the line between reality and fiction; and finally, it points to elements of the “poetic documentary” format, which replaces a linear narrative with a psychological one.