Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

A symmetrically divided building: on one side an important public hospital, on the other a bewildering ruin. On the horizon, Rio de Janeiro, public health, education and Brazil’s aged modern project. Shot entirely in the monumental and only partially occupied modernist edifice of the hospital of the Rio de Janeiro Federal University, the film is a material metaphor of the Brazilian public sphere and its political maze. And most of all, an architecturally expressed synthesis of the modernist utopia/dystopia.