Visual Concept & Photography
The Myth (Technicolor 1940s):
Historical reenactments in India and France, as well as the poetic appearances of Marie Weiss, utilize saturated colors, high contrast, and film texture to elevate the narrative to the dimension of dreams and ancestral memory.
Intimacy (Archive 2009–2013):
Recordings of encounters between Mauro Albert and Louis Plessier in Florianópolis emerge in the raw aesthetic of amateur digital video. The unadorned image preserves the urgency and truth of the master-student oral transmission.
The Living Legacy (Contemporary):
The current Manouche scene and the daily life of communities in Brazil, France, and India are captured in modern high definition, showing that this tradition remains alive, active, and in constant transformation.
Sound Architecture & Soundtrack
Ancestral Matrix:
Direct field recording in France and India of the root repertoire in its natural and organic acoustics.
Current Reinterpretation: Unreleased fragments recorded with virtuosos of contemporary manouche in India and France.
Affective Archive: Intimate recordings and original compositions resulting from a four-year encounter between Mauro Albert and Louis Plessier.
Musical Direction: Mauro Albert.
Presence on Stage and Hybrid Language
The decision to appear on screen as Marie Weiss reflects a signature artistic style developed through my trajectory in theatrical and audiovisual direction. Given the scarcity of benchmarks in Brazil for scenic performances centered on Indian art research and themes that organically combine theater, dance, and music, I developed a hybrid language where acting, directing, and capturing occur within the same creative flow.
In this docudrama, embodying Marie Weiss while directing is more than an aesthetic choice: it is a direct response to the systemic erasure of women in the arts—a structural phenomenon vividly reflected across the various cultures portrayed in the film. By simultaneously occupying the center of performance and creation, the filmmaking process itself becomes a poetic and political manifesto, reclaiming female presence and memory as foundational pillars of cultural legacy.