O ABISMO
(THE ABYSS)
dir. Rogério Sganzerla, 1977
80 mins, Brazil
In Portuguese with English subtitles
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3 – 10 PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 – MIDNIGHT
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 7:30 PM
“Jimi Hendrix is a thinker, and to him I dedicate all my tracking shots, my pans, and my tableaux. With him, I discovered the need to say everything at once, no matter what.”
—Rogério Sganzerla
What I wanted was to destroy my ego…
O ABISIMO is a sensory trip that forges a dialogue between the music of Jimi Hendrix, the land of Fusang, the power of MU, and the story of an Egyptologist (José Mojica Marins) searching for an ancient emblem while pursued by one Madame Zero (Norma Bengell). The film also features Ze Bonitinho as some sort of deconstructive archetype, Bossa Nova legend Edison Machado as a drummer who plays loud and intermittently, and Wilson Gray, who shoots a gun in the middle of nowhere while referencing Edgar Allen Poe. O ABISIMO is possibly Sganzerla’s freest film.