Ato, Atalho e Vento

This swirling compilation of now classic film images shows how a single shot or short scene can engrave itself forever in our memory. To name a few: the group of monkeys on a rock from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Kubrick, the screaming brother in the tree from Fellini’s Amarcord and Woody Allen’s Jewish mother above the New York skyline in Oedipus Wrecks. These bookmarks in film history flash by in Act and Wind – with some truly creative editing, director Marcelo Masagão offers a documentary look at the film medium. “It's a movie in between shots, or a movie that joins shots together,” he explains. The film prioritizes the most important act in the art of cinema: the cut, the passage from one time-space unit to the next. Invisible in itself, only to be noticed through the images it connects – the end of one scene and the beginning of another – the cut forms the quintessence of cinema. In this succession of iconic shots, Masagão masterfully shows how films communicate with each other, how they cross time and space to tell a more universal story. A true treat for the cinephile. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)