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Out of breath (Sans Oxygène)

An announced tragedy.
In January 2021, the world's lungs lacked oxygen. In Manaus, capital of Amazonas, dozens of people, including newborns, died in public hospitals due to lack of oxygen.
The lack of oxygen also affected the state of Pará and a parallel sale of oxygen cylinders is spreading across the North of the country. The necropolitics spreads throughout Brazil.

  • Liliane Mutti
    Director
  • Liliane Mutti
    Writer
  • Daniel Zarvos
    Producer
    Photographe
  • Gabriella Scheer
    Key Cast
  • Daniela Ramalho
    Montage
  • Ruben Jacobina
    Bande son
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 26, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    English, French, Modern Greek (1453-), Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Liliane Mutti

Born in Bahia, Brazil, Liliane Mutti lives and works in Paris.
She has created and directed more than 70 episodes of the TV travel series "Decola", (each episode is 26 minutes in duration and focus on a particular region of Brazil). She is currently editing her first feature documentary , entitled Miucha, the voix of the Bossa Nova (TIFF/ Telluride/ IDFA/ Fipadoc/ FestRio). Her work has recently been exhibited at the Centre of Arts Récollets, the Foundation Krajcberg and at Atelier Studio Ivan Argote at Pantin in Paris.

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Director Statement

Sans oxygènie (Out of breath) is an experimental blue short film that opens the trilogy of Devir, which I hope to do in 2021, based on a worldwide pandemic scenario. Set in Paris, the film looks at Brazil from Paris, especially the tragedy of the Amazon region, where France shares its largest border with Brazil, the French Guyana. The choice of black and white, especially a grayish white, marks a scenario of si-fic, in which the future is the present. When could we imagine that we would run out of oxygen? Inspired by real facts, such as the lack of oxygen cylinders in the hospitals of northern Brazil, the film fictionalizes reality and express it in images of pain and death, when words are not a possibility.