The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932). The work approaches historic and artistic aspects from the beginning of Cinema (pre cinema, variety film) and a cinema that appropriates archive material (found footage, recycled films), through interviews, documents, visual metaphors and the articulation of a poetic essay.
Alberto Santos Dumont
Charles Rolls
Bernardo Vorobow
Ismail Xavier
Ken Jacobs
Paul Spehr
Eduardo Morettin
Henrique Lins de Barros
Laurent Mannoni
Solange Ferraz de Lima
Nicole Brenez
Ron Magliozzi
Charles Silver