A film by Tiago Mata Machado
It was a small group of world breakers. Lost in the crowd, but connected to each other, they lived in the solitude of clandestinity, in turn with their contradictions: they loved human life, but they despised life itself. They were ready for sacrifice. Nihilism, melancholy, betrayal, despair: tragic consciences in a long journey at the end of the night. A tale of love and death, in a world in which the state of exception has become a rule and the last days of humanity never end.
Tiago Mata Machado is a film critic, curator and Brazilian filmmaker. A master in Multimedia by the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), he was a film critic for the newspapers “Folha de Sao Paulo” (2000-2006). He was the co-author of the experimental videos Buraco Negro (29ª Bienal de São Paulo), O Século (13ª Istanbul Biennial, New Museum Trienal 2002), Rua de Mão Única (43º International Film Festival Rotterdam, SeMa Biennale Mediaticy Seoul), Comunidade (Biennial of
Moving Images, Geneva, 2016), NAU (Biennale di Venezia, Brazilian Pavilion, 2017). He is the author of the medium length film “Curra Urbana” (1998) and the feature films “O Quadrado de Joana” (2002) and “The Residents” (61o Berlinale/2011, and winner of the awards for best photography, best actress, best supporting actress, and best soundtrack at the Brasilia Film Festival 2010).
Clara Choveaux, Rômulo Braga, Carolina Castanho, Renan Rovida, Francis Vogner, Cristiano Peixoto, Paulo Rocha, Paulo César Bicalho
Screenplay: Francis Vogner, Tiago Mata Machado
Cinematographer: Fernando Lockett
Editing: Alice Furtado, Luiz Pretti
Sound: Bruno Vasconcelos, Gustavo Fioravante
Production Designer: Marcelo XY, Luísa Horta
Costume designer: Marcelo XY, Irene Andrade
Make-up: Priscila Pêgo, Cacá Zech
Sound editing and mixing: Pedro Durães
Original Soundtrack: Juan Rojo, Pedro Durães
Line Producer: Fernanda Vidigal, Débora Olivera, Pedro Leal
Executive Producer: Aline X
Production Company: Katásia Filmes
Co-Production: 88 art cinema
Original Title: Os sonâmbulos