Green Vinyl
Films by Kleber Mendonça Filho
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 17 mins | 2014
A mother’s gift of a box of old records to her young daughter comes with one proviso: never listen to the green one! Adapted from a Russian folktale, this lo-fi stop-motion short—a Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection—offers an off-kilter blend of whimsy and horror.
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Electrodomestica
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 23 mins | 2005
Afternoon in a middle-class apartment in Recife: the laundry goes round and round in the machine much as a roast chicken does in the microwave. Appliances augment drudgery and relaxation alike in this humorous domestic symphony, which builds to a... -
Cold Tropics
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 25 mins | 2009
A playful but pointed work of faux-reportage about Recife, in Brazil’s northeast, in which climate change produces an absurdist scenario: locals and tourists alike struggle to adapt when chilly weather, rain, and even penguins descend upon Mendon... -
Friday Night Saturday Morning
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 16 mins | 2005
Carried across the seas by signals between chunky cell phones, yearning suffuses this sweet and slender, vérité-style story of lovers divided by geography—he in Recife, she in Kyiv.
