feature

The Whispers that Killed Me

Fiction, 75′, 2023
Directed by Arthur Tuoto

Synopsis

Ingrid Savoy, a celebrity on the cusp of a reality show, spends her days confined to a hotel room. Between premonitory visions, a paparazzi attack and anarchist attacks that break out across the city, the artist lives the constant imminence of a scandal.

Through a flow of thoughts in which the characters mix their own reflections with random quotes, the film explores a state of alienation and madness that is fed by a media machine.

Credits

PRODUCTION COMPANY

GRAFO

CAST

MEL LISBOA, OTÁVIO LINHARES, CARLA RODRIGUES, PEDRO GAETA, PATRICK SAMPAIO, ISABELA LAGO

script

ARTHUR TUOTO

direction

ARTHUR TUOTO

cinematography

EDUARDO AZEVEDO

production design

ANA BONA

film editing

ARISTEU ARAUJO

production sound

TULIO BORGES

sound design

ALEXANDRE ROGOSKI

Management production

MAX LEEAN

executive production

RAIANE RODRIGUES

production

ANTONIO GONÇALVES JUNIOR, DIOGO CAPRIOTTI

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Director's Note

Despite the experimental approach, the work focuses on a tradition of staging and speaking. A dramatic heritage that draws from the essential device of the scene and, consequently from its subversion, its cinematographic possibilities. The film reconciles a drama of classical procedures (dialogue as the essential driving force of the story) with a fantastic approach and inventive visual exploration.

The main characteristic of the film, in this sense, is its anti-naturalist tone. We’re not looking for a realism in the dynamics of the scene, but an irreverent game, an induct intonation that shows ambiguity. We are between the pathetic and the solemn, melodrama and humor. The characters truly believe in what they say, but there’s a logic of absurd that integrates all their environments.

From this dubious tone, the film glimpses a series of reflections ranging from the logic of entertainment in the contemporary world to the relation between spectator and product. Evidencing, as said before, a mechanism of consumption that starts from the adoration of a personality. We love not only people, but their images, their “imagery entities” that are elaborated by the media apparatus.

Ficha Técnica

empresa produtora

GRAFO

roteiro

ARTHUR TUOTO

direção

ARTHUR TUOTO

direção de fotografia

EDUARDO AZEVEDO

direção de arte

ANA BONA

montagem

ARISTEU ARAUJO

som direto

TULIO BORGES

desenho de som

ALEXANDRE ROGOSKI

produção executiva

RAIANE RODRIGUES

produção

ANTONIO GONÇALVES JUNIOR, DIOGO CAPRIOTTI

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