![]() The Federal Police occupied the building until after democracy was restored to Brazil, leaving in 2003. The dark years of a U.S.-backed military dictatorship followed from 1964 to 1985-the longest in Latin America. The monumental 24-story glass curtain-wall was conceived during Brazil’s golden age of architecture – a time of great hope and optimism, which the building embodied. In 2017, Zmekhol returned to the country of her birth, Brazil, intent on learning about the history and life of the Pele de Vidro. ![]() In Children of the Amazon, Zmekhol explores the lives of tribal members in the Amazon as the forest they have called home-and their way of life-are rapidly changing as a result of deforestation and political corruption. Since 2002, Zmekhol has used film to capture the stories of disenfranchised people and communities-people whose lives have been ruptured by political and economic forces in Brazil and the United States. ![]() Courtesy of Denise Zmekhol Documenting and Reflectingĭenise Zmekhol recalls that it was her father who first gave her a camera when she was a child-a tool for documenting and reflecting on the world. The foundation and HIFF will present screenings of Skin of Glass followed by Q&A with the filmmaker on Thursday, October 19, and Saturday, October 21, at the Consolidated Kahala Theatre in Honolulu. The program celebrates immigrant and first-generation artists’ contributions to cinema in the United States. The Vilcek Foundation is proud to host Zmekhol as part of our New American Perspectives program at the 2023 Hawai’i International Film Festival. ![]() Through the history of this monumental piece of modernist architecture, she explores her relationship with her late father-architect Roger Zmekhol-and to the political and economic history of Brazil since the building’s creation in 1961. In Skin of Glass, filmmaker Denise Zmekhol uses her father’s masterwork-the Pele de Vidro (skin of glass) building in downtown São Paulo-as a lens. I come back to Brazil searching for you in the work you created and find the ruins of your dreams-a shadow of what once was. The more I learn about you, the less I know you. ![]()
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