JÚLIA MACHADO


PARADISE

05:27, Video HD, color, stereo sound
Denmark 2016
Anna is a senior woman bored with the same familiar, idyllic landscape outside her summerhouse when a charming man passes by on the beach. As he flirts back, she gets puzzled. With her sexual appetite awakened, Anna will invite him to taste the forbidden fruit. 







FEMME  

05:44, Video HD, color, stereo sound
Denmark 2016

Backstage, a dancer rehearses the lines of a character who, just like herself, struggles with the discipline that ballet demands. What does it mean to be beautiful and feminine? As she prepares for her performance, she encounters the power and sensuality of a visceral body in search of freedom.








BLISS  

06:06, Video HD, color, stereo sound
Denmark 2016

A man has his choreographed daily routines shifted as he invites a friend and his wife for a visit. What would otherwise be a regular occasion brings in the seeds of a genuine encounter. As they play with their hidden fantasies together, he starts to overcome the erotic barriers of a life with physical disability.








PAÓ: WITHOUT WORDS

6:09, video HD, color, stereo sound
Brazil 2008



Carlos Henrique Braz is a young Black dancer who lives in the Nova Divinéia favela, in the Andaraí Complex in Rio de Janeiro. As he steps into adulthood, he feels pushed away from his artistic path by pressures tied to his racial and social background. His silent speech in performance is a blend of memory and fiction, a dreamlike enchantment in an otherwise too-concrete world.







CITY OF YOUTH

30:00, video HD, color, stereo sound
Brazil 2006


Four late teenagers living in the City of God present their thoughts and contradictions in straightforward talks on the local realities, dreams, and the media.

OCIC Honorable Mention Award at RIO International
Ethnographic Film Festival.