VIAJO PORQUE PRECISO VOLTO PORQUE TE AMO
(I TRAVEL BECAUSE I NEED TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU)

Brazil, 2009, 75 minutes, Colour.
Directed by Marcelo Gomes, Karim Ainouz.

Viajo Porque is an experimental film, with moments as if it were an installation in a museum.

It is in the form of a diary, a geologist who is travelling the backblocks of Brazil in order to test the soil and to give information for the building of a dam and a canal. By the end of the film, the diarist arrives at a lake, at a deserted town which will be flooded.

Along the way, the diarist indicates the number of days, his feelings, details about his work, his memories of the person that he left behind. On the other hand, there is a great deal of attention to the women that he meets on the way, the life of the prostitutes in these back roads of Brazil.

The visuals are very much in the experimental vein, taken on video with transfer from tape to film. While some of the production may be in high definition, the results are very much low definition. Close-ups are clearer. Longer shots are more fuzzy, giving the impression of amateur film-making.

Audiences who value narrative in their films, will find this story particularly slight, egocentric, not of great interest. Those who enjoy experimental films, techniques moving away from the gloss and craft of the feature films, will like this kind of personal film-making.

The benefit for either audience is the visualising of the open deserts and the remoteness of Brazil away from the major cities.