Director: Gabriel Mascaro

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Birthday: 1983-01-01
Born in: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Biography: Gabriel Mascaro is a visual artist and filmmaker from Recife, Brazil. Mascaro's work is characterized by a critical interpretation of the contemporaneity through observing or inventing everyday practices that involve performance, games of inversion, displacement and appropriation. He investigates the relationship between micro-politics and everyday life through film, installation and photography. His films and video installations have been screened at important festivals and artistic events/exhibitions including Venice, IDFA, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, MoMAn-nNY, Oberhausen, Clermont Ferrand, the Guggenheim, MACBAn- Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Panorama da Arte Brasileira at MAM - SP and the São Paulo Art Biennale. Mascaro participated in the Videobrasil Artistic Residency at the Videoformes in France and the Wexner Center for Arts in the USA. His films have won over 50 awards. In April 2016 he had a retrospective of his work at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Known for

Divine Love

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.
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Neon Bull

Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck he uses to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
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Housemaids

Seven adolescents take on the mission of filming, for one week, their family's housemaids and hand over the footage to the director to make a film. The images that confront us uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.
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