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  • Steel Town (2013)
  • Short | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Steel Town (2013)
Short | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town surrounded by a tropical forest. The city's economy, and consequently its citizens' lives, revolve around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest steel mill in Latin America. Steel Town,...See moreVolta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town surrounded by a tropical forest. The city's economy, and consequently its citizens' lives, revolve around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest steel mill in Latin America. Steel Town, a long-form HD video, will focus on working-class life in Volta Redonda, building a critical dialogue between art, popular television and politics. The idea for the film arose out of Martin's conversations with anthropologist Massimiliano ('Mao') Mollona, a specialist in labour issues and visual anthropology who conducted eight months of fieldwork in Volta Redonda. Together with Mollona, Martin instigated a theatre workshop (facilitated by a director from the Center of Theater of the Oppressed, Rio) with a dozen members of the local community, aimed at transforming personal stories into the widely recognised melodramatic form of the 'telenovela'. Martin filmed the process of the workshop, as well as the resulting ten-minute long soap opera script on location around Volta Redonda. Martin also filmed 'candid' scenes within the city's working-class, gentrified, and commercial neighbourhoods. Martin's and Mollona's plan is to interweave this material in an edit that complicates boundaries between 'documentary' and 'melodramatic' registers. They seek to ask questions about the nature of the 'political image'; what happens when it is skewed and arguably enlarged by fantasy and fiction? Written by Daria Martin See less
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Composer
Wong Theresa
Cinematographer
Daria Martin
Editor
Guy Ducker
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Updated Jan 24, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013 (United Kingdom)

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