Vultures Have Wings + The Line: Lúcio Costa and the Modern Utopia

Urubus têm asas (Vultures Have Wings)

D: André Rangel, Marcos Negrão, BR 2008, 15 min, English subtitles

Everything can be recycled, not just trash. A small but inventive and determined community of shrimp fishers tries to prevent the destruction of their livelihoods in the mangrove swamps. One of the results: they collect discarded plastic bottles and build a house with them.

O risco: Lúcio Costa e a utopia moderna (The Line: Lúcio Costa and the Modern Utopia)

D: Geraldo Motta Filho, BR 2002, 76 min, English subtitles

When Lúcio Costa (1902-1998) submitted his plans for the construction of Brasília in early 1957, he planned not merely to build a new city in the red sands of the Cerrado, he planned to create a place of political community for citizens, for a “Civitas“ in the truest sense of the word. Thus, Brazil’s new capital, for which he was responsible as city planner, became the biggest project of his life, a constructed utopia for the 21st century. Director Geraldo Motta Filho traces the life of this so influential figure in architectural modernism, using archive footage from the 1930s through to the 1960s.