Rough Red

In her film entitled Rough Red Amanda Devulsky endeavours to tell History differently to show the reverse angle of political action as well as to postulate that another form of resistance is possible By shedding light on the lived experience of those who are unseen in public space she has authored a historiography of the hidden Were following the lives of Jô Eunice Alessa and Fabiana four women who were still teenagers when they became mothers at a time when Brazil itself was becoming a democracy during the 19851995 decade in Brasilia Four women experiencing the strains of motherhood and whose struggles were not played out in public but rather in the private space of the home Blending personal archives with images shot in 2018 during the campaign leading up to Jair Bolsonaros election Amanda Devulsky constructs a monumental narrative