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Original Film Title: Um Corpo Só
Director’s Name: Carlos Nazario
Writer’s Name: Carlos Nazario
Producer: Carlos Nazario
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese Brazil
Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
Film Description:
“One Single Body” is a documentary with elements of fiction, theater, and delirium, which follows the trajectory of the Tribe of Actors who, in their over 40 years of existence, have built a production of immeasurable historical relevance to Brazilian theater.
“I wonder why they arrested me here. All for an aesthetic matter? So what’s dangerous is discussing aesthetics, not politics.” This is the questioning posed by Vsevolod Meyerhold, portrayed by Paulo Flores in the production of the Tribe of Actors Ói Nóis Aqui Traveiz, freely adapting the play by Argentine Eduardo Pavlovsky, which questions the fate of the revolutionary man of Russian theater, cruelly imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the Stalinist authoritarian regime. While Paulo merges with Meyerhold, Tânia experiences her own process of immersion and independence in the new staging of To Those Who Came After Us – Kassandra in Process.
This production becomes, in our film, an emotional neighbor to the Russian monologue. The political-aesthetic persecution that Meyerhold refers to begins to be felt on the skin by the characters we follow. The remounting of “Kassandra in Process” arouses a moralistic wave, a censorship impulse, manifested in physical and virtual persecutions. What starts as an intimate record of the production of these plays, is a tangential dive into the group’s history, ultimately becoming an investigation into the aesthetic and ethical boundaries of art, where the threshold between life and art, fiction and reality, the intimate and the political, is blurred by the possibility of understanding creative imagination as a tool of resistance.