Cinema de Casa (1999)

From home, the Super 8 sees a strange figure, a spy, arriving at the building next door. A desperate search for the unknown begins. This fiction, made in Super 8, opens, scores and ends Cinema de Casa (1999, Betacam), a documentary about the domestic use of portable format in Recife, city of Northeast of Brazil. The first equipment and use for entertainment, at a time when home video did not exist; the relationship with past experiences, records, peculiarities, joys and disappointments appear in the testimonies of eight people, interviewed in their natural habitat: their house. Cinema de Casa was made from a project included in the Rumos Cinema and Vídeo program, Emerging category, from Instituto Itaú Cultural and valid as an experimental project for the social communication (journalism) course at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Directed, written and produced by Marcos Toledo.