MAU WAL: Translated Encouters (2002)
Fabiana Werneck and Marco Del Fiol

SINOPSE

Maurício Dias & Walter Riedweg often say the streets are their studio. From the observation of them and of those who populate them there arise installations about encounters, identity and territoriality. The Brazilian-born Dias met the Swiss Riedweg in 1993. Together they learned that they could boost one another’s ideas. “This marriage became MAU WAL,” says Dias. In this documentary, they present their works and the many characters behind them: people who make day-to-day living in the big cities. Street vendors at a Northeast Brazilian fair in São Paulo, illegal immigrants in their quest for the European dream, street kids and their memories... In stories or in the role it plays, the human element is always a centerpiece to the duo’s work. English and Spanish subtitles.

BIOGRAPHY

Fabiana Werneck. Historian and art critic, Fabiana Werneck Barcinski graduated in Industrial Design, with specialization in Brazilian Art and Architecture. She also holds a master's degree in Cultural Social History from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio. Her published works include the lead text for the book Ivan Serpa (2003) for Banco Pactual; a biography of José Resende for a volume on the artist's work published by Cosac & Naify, as well as essays on contemporary visual artists Nuno Ramos and Claudio Elisabetski. She wrote the script for the 2005 production Marepe, directed by Marco Del Fiol, with whom she codirected the documentary MAU WAL: Encontros Traduzidos for the Videobrasil Authors Collection series. Fabiana is the editor of the children's/youth line for the Girafinha label at A Girafa publishing house.

Marco Del Fiol Marco Del Fiol is a director, scriptwriter, and editor of documentaries and feature films. For the Videobrasil Authors Collection he has codirected MAU WAL: Translated Encounters (2002). Other directorial projects include Emoção Art.ficial 2.0 for Instituto Itaú Cultural in 2004 and Marepe for the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2005. He is responsible for the editing and coordination of the DVDs Nomadisms: A Tribute to Waly Salomão (2003) and Antologia Videobrasil de Performances (2005), from Associação Cultural Videobrasil. He has collaborated with the NGO Cedac on videos for Programa Escola que Vale [School that's Worth It Program] run by the Vale do Rio Doce Foundation. He teaches editing and camera at the Miami Ad School in São Paulo.

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