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Original Film Title: Birds of Amsterdam
Director’s Name: Bruno Sãnto
Writer’s Name: Bruno Sãnto
Producer: Marcos Souza
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
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Runtime: 4 minutes 1 second
Film Description:
Through the sounds of a city, we discover and reveal a different side of a metropolis. By interpreting the music hidden within these urban sounds, you experience the city in a completely new way. When Brazilian musician Marcos Souza lived in Amsterdam, he began listening closely to the sounds of the canal city. Inspired by the years he spent producing the Festival Instrumental SESC Rio (2000–2009)—where he collaborated with artists such as Hermeto Pascoal, Sivuca, and Naná Vasconcellos—Marcos learned to hear the wind, the birds, the traffic lights, the opening bridges, the trams, the bicycles…
From this soundscape emerged the music for a new project, born from rehearsals with Kurdish dancer Badeen Pedawi, who lives in the Netherlands. The project was called Winds of Amsterdam and resulted in an album.
With Brazilian music as its foundation, and baião as its rhythmic base, the project took shape as a live piano-and-dance duet in Amsterdam, performed in 2009 at the Engelenbak Theatre.
Now, Marcos releases a new music video directed by Bruno Sãnto to celebrate the success of the track “Birds of Amsterdam”, which has already been streamed nearly 100,000 times on Spotify!