Pescaria de merda

Coletivo Santa Madeira | 2009 | Brasile | 9’ | Fuori concorso

This short film shows in an ironic way the story of a group of artists that improvise themselves fishermen and decided to fish in the river Pinheiros  (highly polluted and full of toxic waste), equipped with fishing rods and protected by an overall suit. Later the group members exhibit the waste collected in a shop window on Paulista Avenue, one of the most important streets of Sao Paulo. The indifference of the passers-by highlights the contradictions of development, a voracious monster that produces rubbish at a swirling rhythm…