Mar de Fogo

In 1930 the Brazilian filmmaker and poet Mario Peixoto produced a masterpiece of Brazilian film history the two hour long silent film Limite inspired by European expressionist and avantgarde cinema In 2014 Joel Pizzini paid homage to the film and in particular its filmmaker by creating a film montage using images from Limite and additional documentary material of interviews from the 1970s and 1980s Mario Peixoto never finished another film even though he continued to work on diverse projects Mar de Fogo also features a freely imagined new sequence for Peixotos next but never completed film as envisaged by Joel Pizzini He tries to invoke Peixotos vision while making Limite and to visually explore the feeling he had when he had the inspiration for the film