Janauba

Santos constructs a lyrical meditation on his native Brazilian landscape its culture and its inhabitants Santos pays tribute to two important historical figures from Brazilian cinema Humberto Mauro and Mario Peixoto and their films The Oxcart and The Limit Contemporary footage recorded in Death Valley and in Janauba a town in the artists native state of Minas Gerais describes landscapes that appear to be untouched by time In contrast the reality of their inhabitants suggests an idealized yet never realized future