Maurício Dias & Walter Riedweg often say the streets are their studio. From the observation of them and of those who populate them there arise installations about encounters, identity and territoriality. The Brazilian-born Dias met the Swiss Riedweg in 1993. Together they learned that they could boost one another’s ideas. “This marriage became Mau Wal,” says Dias. In this documentary, they present their works and the many characters behind them: people who make day-to-day living in the big cities. Street vendors at a Northeast Brazilian fair in São Paulo, illegal immigrants in their quest for the European dream, street kids and their memories. In stories or in the role it plays, the human element is always a centerpiece to the duo’s work.
This is the first 3D animated Brazilian film. It tells the story of Stress & Relax: a businessman who thinks only of money and a film director who lives for insisting that this invest in their projects. This time, the "project" is to look for the oldest tree in Brazil. Stress is excited about the possibility of making money with this rarity. The problem is that they do not know exactly where it is. Stress and Relax out in search of the "Big Jequitibá Rose" with no map, no compass and clueless.
Responsible and methodical, Felipe is about to complete his master's degree and finds himself under pressure to try a solution to rescue his 5-year marriage. Meanwhile Bruno, explosive and questioner, tries to make up for his partner's lack of time with night outings. The relationship crisis reaches the point where the two try to find over these five years where part of the way they have reached that state. Fights, reconciliations, promises and abdications involve the couple's trajectory from the first meeting to the factual “has come to an end”.
An experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Helio Oiticica and his works, especially the Parangolés.
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