The White Goddess
Director Alfeu França
Countries Brazil
Duration 30 min
Synopsis
In 1958, the polemic Brazilian artist Flávio de Carvalho joined an expedition to the rain forest to shoot his first feature film, a strange mix of surrealist fiction and ethnography work about a young woman violently kidnapped by Amazonian indians., Danger, romance and quarrels in the jungle and the production had to be interrupted., The White Goddess employs rare and original archival images to recreate this fantastic forgotten journey.
In 1958, the polemic Brazilian artist Flávio de Carvalho joined an expedition to the rain forest to shoot his first feature film, a strange mix of surrealist fiction and ethnography work about a young woman violently kidnapped by Amazonian indians., Danger, romance and quarrels in the jungle and the production had to be interrupted., The White Goddess employs rare and original archival images to recreate this fantastic forgotten journey.