Nilton Valério

A documentary short on the life and works on José Medina, one of early Brazilian cinema's most renowed pioneers.

A film regarding the works, the studios and the performances of Abrahan Palatnik, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, Glauco Rodrigues, Helio Oiticica, Ligia Pape, Lygia Clark, Pedro Escosteguy, Rubens Gerchman, Tomoshige Kusuno, Wesley Duke Lee, and the São Paulo 9th Bienal of Art.

The panorama of film production, from 1898 to 1966, told through the work of young pioneers who built the odyssey of cinema. The lines, styles and trends are in this anthology of many of the best moments of Brazilian Cinema, which seeks, in a moment of maturity, to perpetuate and encourage the impetus of the pioneers.

The film documents the old Rio de Janeiro and its great focus of diseases. Stresses the decisive importance of Oswaldo Cruz who creates Experimental Medicine in Brazil, believing that without sanitation, no undertaking could succeed. Rodrigues Alves then started the urbanization of Rio, against great interests.