“The Soul of the Bone” gradually reveals the apparently isolated existence of Dominguinhos, a 72-year-old hermit who lives inside a cave that juts off from a rock mountain. The film is composed of long silences in which the hermit executes his daily chores, such as cooking and cleaning, and of images that transcend his territory. Towards the end we discover that silence is commonplace in the hermit’s life, the normal state in which time passes. Speech is the state of exception.
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The Soul of the Bone - 2004
Director and Cinematographer: Cao Guimarães
Editing: Cao Guimarães
Images: Cao Guimarães
Photography in video: Cao Guimarães, Beto Magalhães, Marcos M. Marcos
Photography in Super8: Cao Guimarães
Executive Producer: Beto Magalhães and Cao Guimarães
Line Producer: Beto Magalhães
Character research: Gibi Cardoso
Art: Jimmy Leroy
Original Soundtrack: O Grivo
Sound: Marcos M. Marcos
AWARDS
BEST FILM ON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- IX É Tudo Verdade – Festival Internacional de Documentários. São Paulo. 2004.
BEST FILM ON BRAZILIAN COMPETITION
- IX É Tudo Verdade – Festival Internacional de Documentários. São Paulo. 2004.
FESTIVALS AND EXHIBITIONS
- IDFA – Festival Internacional de Documentários de Amsterdam. Holanda, 2004.
- XXVII Festival Cinéma du Réel, Centro George Pompidou. Paris, França-2005.
- Infinity Film Festival. Alba, Itália- 2005.
- III FICCO – Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporâneo da Cidade do México. México, 2006.
- EDOC- Festival de Documentários do Equador. Equador, 2006.
- I Festival de Cinema Latino-Americano de São Paulo. Brasil, 2006.
- Imagem dos Povos. Ouro Preto, Brasil- 2006.
- Mostra Primeira Pessoa. Itaú Cultural. São Paulo, Brasil- 2006.
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