In Colombia, urban art fights against historical violence, reclaims public…
Skin
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The walls in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte are inundated with painted pictures and words, from stunning murals to old-school graffiti, and from enigmatic cries from the heart to furious cursing. Marcos Pimentel uses his mostly static camera to capture an impressive number of these public statements, painting a picture of the city as a canvas for artists, poets, and outraged citizens. Ranging from the ironic to the inflamed, the words and images of murals, tags, and posters give a voice to the voiceless.
In Skin, fragments of memory and silent screams reveal the desires, fears, fantasies, and daydreams of those who inhabit urban centers. The letters and drawings interact with the different bodies that move through the public space with cars driving past, buses stopping, and pedestrians hurrying along—some of them unaware of the artwork behind them, others quickly snapping a selfie.
“One of the most beautiful films of this or any year, Skin (Pele) is a city symphony, an evocation of what life is like in Belo Horizonte, the sixth largest municipality in Brazil. Marcos Pimentel’s film uses no narration, so we hear no dialogue at all. For 75 minutes, the audience is liberated from the tyranny of language and linear narratives.” – Marc Glassman, POV Magazine
“Focused and quietly cumulative, Pimentel's unconventional city symphony is supported by a sound design that weaves together richly ambient soundscapes, music, field recordings of protests and more. Winner of a special mention at the most recent IDFA, in Skin the walls don't just talk—they rally.” – Jesse Cumming, Hotdogs
"Within minutes one is washed away on a gentle tide of emotion and association.” — Modern Times Review
Citation
Main credits
Pimentel, Marcos (film director)
Pimentel, Marcos (screenwriter)
Morales, Iván (screenwriter)
Other credits
Cinematography, Giovanna Pezzo; editing, Ivan Morales, Jr.
Distributor subjects
Culture + Identity, Sociology, Visual Arts, Urban Studies, GeographyKeywords
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Violently sweet
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\"SKIN\"
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High summer \'20
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Not crazy enough!
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Please bug me!
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Love while there\'s time.
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The love of your life is you.
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I did this one for her!
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I have bad romances
because I love to be bad
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Seeking a place for rent
in an available heart
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Longing is a tattoo
on the skin of your soul.
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Law of love
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Make love today!
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Pleasure
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Love (the mother\'s milk) is a necessity!
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I just want to have you
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Impotent
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In your embrace, I want you!
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Love exists, resists
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God listens to you
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Why see me whole
if you judge me partially?
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Jesus loves you
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My street has no zip code,
but it exists!
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Here we are!
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The slums are alive
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Central Faction
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Crazy life
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Respect. Honor.
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Eviction, go away.
Dona Vilma, stay!
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Housing is a human right!
00:14:39.922 --> 00:14:43.926
Enough social cleansing!
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Human beings in Brazil are detestable
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If I were afraid of dying
I would never leave my room
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I want peace and rice.
Love is good and comes later.
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Rice, beans and weed
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Street survivors
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Race/grit
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The Brazilian people...
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died in the oncoming lanes,
backing up the traffic.
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In a homeless boy\'s home
the last to bed turns off the moon
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While the poor are denied justice,
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the rich will be denied peace
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The police only kill the poor
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The police are murderers!
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Away with intervention
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The military police kill!
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Intervention is not the solution
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No to militarization
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For sale: black meat
Phone: 911
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Every police van
is a bit like a slave ship
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The cheapest meat resists
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Freedom is for everyone, brother!
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The police point their guns
to fondle my dick
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The system is rotten and craven
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You see guns
I see pussy
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Your fear keeps me going
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The cautious died of boredom
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Against all authority
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The city is a prison
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Daily life kills
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Have faith and fight on!
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- Guns + Spray
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I just want peace
and nothing more
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Immoral Moro
Partial judge
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We can do anything
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Salvation is accepting Jesus
as the only one
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Jesus will return in 2070
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Bible yes, Constitution no.
Jesus will return in 2070
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Faith affects your focus
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Racists imposed their faith
by repressing your Candomblé
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Black Awareness Day
is meant to stop this!
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I came for the gays
and the oppressed
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God is fun
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Earth is flat
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The state is secular
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Eshu Laroye
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Orishas = guardian angels
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We can do anything!
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Black women...
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Don\'t let them privatize our public body
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Who sharpens the minor\'s knife?
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Black fury
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Be black
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Nappy is beautiful.
Your prejudice is ugly.
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More quotas
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Our voice shatters
the mask of silence
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Power to black women
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Protect your quilombo!
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Struggle. Women. Identity.
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We are the resistance
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Hail Dandara
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We will not surrender
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Occupation
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Right to the city
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Housing, fellowship
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Respect
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Occupy the city!
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We can do anything
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Not all who are afraid give up
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15 minutes of fame
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The desperate
are tired of despairing!
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Freedom!
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The enemy
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I\'ve become paranoid
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Fuck the system!
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Where are the beams?
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No to fare increase!
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If the fare goes up
the city will stop!
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No to 4.40 reals!
00:33:13.327 --> 00:33:15.746
No to abolishing retirement
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General strike
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General strike!
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Out with all corrupt officials
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:26.924
Black Friday at the Temer Store
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Nothing to fear
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Out with Temer
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Free Lula
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Free Lula
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No to Globo TV
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Temer, go away!
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Go away, coup-monger!
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Coup-mongers, out!
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Elections now
Temer is over
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Belchior, come back!
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2016 coup
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Coup d\'état
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Not him
Women united
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Not him
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Bolsonaro is a disgrace
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Bolsonaro
enemy of the people
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Anarchists against Bolsonaro
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Don\'t let the clowns
get back in power
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Your mother didn\'t raise you on her own
so you could vote for Bolsonaro
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They rigged the election
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We don\'t know
how to choose a president
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You\'d better start regretting!
Idiots!
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Down with fascism
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There will be no dialogue
with racists and fascists
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The country has gone to shit
and who\'s to blame?
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The \"Myth\" is a liar
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The \"Myth\" is a liar
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Bolsonaro, no
Democracy, yes
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Out with the Bozo-militia
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Immoral Moro
Impartial judge
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Get out of here
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Moro + Dallagnol = criminals
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Out with the Bozo-militia
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:26.043
I believe in the doorman
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Where is Queiroz?
00:35:36.136 --> 00:35:40.140
Myth, your clock is ticking!
00:35:43.477 --> 00:35:47.314
Free Lula
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The criminal is the one
who imprisons without proof
00:35:56.698 --> 00:36:00.702
Lula for president
Lula is innocent
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Lula now
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What was that shot?
00:36:12.589 --> 00:36:15.717
Free Lula
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Brazil...
disorder and regression
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Censorship
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Only universal healthcare saves
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We don\'t need
a social security reform
00:36:34.611 --> 00:36:36.905
We need a political reform
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Politicians and diapers should be
changed regularly for the same reasons
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Celebrating democracy
00:37:22.826 --> 00:37:26.038
Who killed Marielle?
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But we will resist!
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Execution
We have been doing it for 500 years.
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Black people, women, the poor,
we know how to resist.
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The police are murderers
We will not be quiet!
00:37:38.258 --> 00:37:41.136
Shout
No! We will not be quiet!
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Grief/Struggle
No! Marielle is here!
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Marielle flourishes
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Black, memory, resistance
Marielle was murdered
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because she always denounced racism
her whole life.
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Lesbians for Marielle
And she was right.
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Marielle was murdered
00:37:59.321 --> 00:38:01.657
Strong women
by the state and the government.
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Here today and always
We don\'t want heroes
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or dead activists.
00:38:06.787 --> 00:38:10.290
Enough with the shooting!
The bullets have a target.
00:38:10.415 --> 00:38:13.085
They target black skin!
00:38:13.210 --> 00:38:15.128
They won\'t silence us!
Enough! Enough!
00:38:15.254 --> 00:38:17.005
They can\'t kill our ideals.
00:38:18.549 --> 00:38:23.053
We have even lost our fear.
Put an end to the killer police.
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They killed another one of us.
00:38:29.977 --> 00:38:33.313
They killed another one of us!
00:38:34.481 --> 00:38:38.026
They killed another one of us!
00:38:38.151 --> 00:38:40.112
How many more must die
to end this war?
00:38:40.237 --> 00:38:44.283
Just like they kill
our children everyday
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in this war in the periphery,
in this state, in Brazil.
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They killed my friend.
00:38:50.497 --> 00:38:53.292
Who ordered Marielle killed?
They killed our comrade.
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But if they think
this will make us retreat,
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they\'re wrong!
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Not a mistake,
not a housekeeper.
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We women
are on the streets to fight!
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Us alive
00:39:18.358 --> 00:39:21.778
Don\'t underestimate my team!
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My body, my rules
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Get your rosaries
out of our ovaries
00:39:45.344 --> 00:39:49.014
My body, my rules
Freedom has no truce
00:39:49.139 --> 00:39:50.891
And I say that no means no
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Leave her alone
00:39:55.938 --> 00:39:59.566
Trans-love
00:40:02.236 --> 00:40:06.240
For the lives of women
00:40:08.283 --> 00:40:11.453
Respect the gals
00:40:13.789 --> 00:40:17.793
Mom, I\'m a lesbian!
00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:21.797
Power
00:40:21.922 --> 00:40:25.926
Hurray for trans people...
00:40:27.427 --> 00:40:30.848
All I know is that
respect and appreciation
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have everything to do
with lust
00:42:55.033 --> 00:42:58.704
They foul our water,
kill our fauna,
00:42:58.829 --> 00:43:03.166
burn our flora –
that\'s money, making history
00:43:29.818 --> 00:43:33.238
Vale is a killer
00:43:34.907 --> 00:43:38.285
Vale is worthless
00:44:16.323 --> 00:44:20.536
In the city that rumbles,
moneymakers break dams
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In the city that thrills,
artists break down barriers
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:32.005
Looketh at what is left
of the mountains of Minas
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God took them
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:40.324
Destroy your ego
before it destroys you!
00:45:44.828 --> 00:45:48.790
Die well
Live fast
00:46:13.232 --> 00:46:17.236
I\'m having too much fun
00:46:33.877 --> 00:46:36.880
I\'m free
00:46:38.674 --> 00:46:42.678
This hunger
is the will to live
00:46:47.307 --> 00:46:50.310
Full life
00:46:57.609 --> 00:47:01.613
Marijuana is my best friend
00:47:02.656 --> 00:47:06.660
Legalize it, Mr. Judge
00:47:08.787 --> 00:47:12.791
I\'m fine the way I am
00:47:13.208 --> 00:47:17.212
I\'m a very calm guy!
00:47:18.213 --> 00:47:22.217
Wander in wonder
00:47:23.051 --> 00:47:26.346
Collective instinct
00:47:26.471 --> 00:47:30.267
Poetic vandalism
00:47:30.392 --> 00:47:34.396
Each path is a risk
00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:38.984
Don\'t look away
00:48:01.465 --> 00:48:04.968
Gotta look closer
00:48:07.888 --> 00:48:10.891
Give lilies
00:48:12.100 --> 00:48:16.104
Now is the only moment
that matters
00:48:17.272 --> 00:48:21.276
Don\'t give up on your dreams!
00:48:28.575 --> 00:48:32.579
What if the sky falls?
00:51:08.026 --> 00:51:12.030
Women belong in hip hop
00:54:45.702 --> 00:54:49.706
Protector-saint of whores
00:55:06.890 --> 00:55:10.894
\"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall set you free\" John 8:32
00:58:01.607 --> 00:58:05.611
Merry Christmas in the city
00:58:45.025 --> 00:58:48.028
It got hairy!
00:58:48.153 --> 00:58:51.156
Is it oppression or pleasure?
00:59:05.337 --> 00:59:09.341
What mysteries does Clarice hide?
00:59:11.635 --> 00:59:14.638
Going and becoming
00:59:15.514 --> 00:59:19.601
Fear stamps out love
00:59:21.144 --> 00:59:24.147
More love, damn it!
00:59:25.232 --> 00:59:28.235
Donating love
00:59:28.861 --> 00:59:31.446
Sula, I love you
00:59:31.572 --> 00:59:34.366
I did it wholeheartedly
00:59:34.491 --> 00:59:38.495
Love stamps out fear
01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:04.683
Kill the president
and save the Amazon!
01:02:08.145 --> 01:02:12.149
Don\'t let me down,
beloved fatherland!
01:02:16.028 --> 01:02:19.364
The system\'s nightmare
01:02:52.189 --> 01:02:55.192
Power to the people
01:04:12.936 --> 01:04:16.648
My whole life is an almost
01:04:16.773 --> 01:04:20.360
The path that ends here
01:04:20.485 --> 01:04:25.490
What if we lost this kind of fear
that makes us so uselessly soft?
01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:28.307
To see the city/Truthfully
01:13:02.216 --> 01:13:04.801
This movie was made possible
01:13:04.927 --> 01:13:09.181
by the talent, inventiveness,
opinions, good humor, courage
01:13:09.306 --> 01:13:15.020
and generosity of artists that use
the streets to express themselves.
01:13:35.415 --> 01:13:40.420
With artistic work and interventions by
01:14:05.779 --> 01:14:10.784
And performances by
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 75 minutes
Date: 2021
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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