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Deliverance

Descarrego
Joana Claude
International Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Brazil
2023
10 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil)
Subtitles: 
English

A fairly shabby, dark, three-part wardrobe in a hallway: About ten years have passed since Joana Claude suffered sexual violence when it was assembled. Now the time has come to not only disassemble it. Instead, Joana sets out to destroy the artefact of pain completely. The gesture is made with fervour, tearing out the shelves and doors looks like retroactive resistance, what was pent up finds an outlet. At the same time, the ritual is characterised by gradual escalation: At first the director speaks of her relationship with her parents – a big sweat stain on her back already beginning to show –, in the end everything is in flames. The act is short, it lasts only a few minutes. And yet it allows an intimate insight that acquires a universal, strength-giving character as it unfolds.

Carolin Weidner

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Joana Claude
Script
Joana Claude
Cinematographer
Letícia Batista
Editor
João Maria
Producer
Maria Alencar, Joana Claude
Sound
Catharine Pimentel
Sound Design
Nicolau Domingues