“Teletransportar” By Rafa Castro
A glimpse into the life of an unemployed teacher earning a living by making deliveries during the pandemic.
When Rafa Castro spoke about the release of his new album, Teletransportar, still in 2019, and invited us to be part of a launch video, our group of friends, who signs the script, started to come up with a narrative that would translate the feelings of the album in a visual way.
A few weeks before shooting, in 2020, COVID arrives, the closure and the need for social distance. We resumed the project in early 2021, now with a new vision. The world has changed so much that the songs and the story have a new relationship, a new meaning. Brazil, ruled by an irresponsible president who called the world pandemic a "little flu", was becoming a disaster both in terms of deaths and unemployment. That's how we arrived at the concept that the film has today.
From the beginning, cinematographer Vini Bock and I thought of a more raw aesthetic for the look of the film, something that would refer to Eduardo Coutinho in a way, entering people's lives, and how Rafa's music would be a part from this universe finding its way to the character's home. That's why we chose right at the beginning to try to make the film in 16mm. Even for a certain mystery of how our analog vision would be, since we always work with digital filming advertisements.
André Inácio - Director
Credits
Music by Rafa Castro
Cast: Diogo Granato, Sofia Porto Granato and Ana Elisa Melo.
Directed by André Inácio
Produced by Modernista
DoP: Vini Bock
Production Design: Laura La Lana
Line Producer: Thaís Girotto
1AD: Gislaine Miyono
Still Photographer: Lorena Dini
EP: Marcelo Monteiro and Alexandre Lucas
Production Coordinator: Pedro Gomes
Steadycam: Tiago Eli
Gaffer: Sergio Bronzo
Key Grip: Rodrigo Molica
1AC: Nestor Grun
2AC: Alice Sesoko
Production Design assistant: Saul Sales
Collor: Allan Almeida
Post Coordinator: Nathalie Rueda
Edit: André Inácio
Post: Capadócia
EP Capadócia: Márcio Lovato
Coord Capadócia: Arthur de Aveiro
Composition Capadócia: Jorge Pereira
Ass Capadócia: Cristian de Jesus
Film Loader: João Lucas Carvalho
Drivers: Vanderlan Sales, Antônio Carlos Monteiro
Security: Carvalho
Written by André Inácio, Gislaine Miyono, Laura La Laina, Lorena Dini, Rafa Castro and Vini Bock
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