Barren Lives (Vidas Secas) (1963) Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos Monday - April 15 - 7:00 p.m. Barren Lives is considered a founding film of the Cinema Novo movement. Derived from Graciliano Ramos’ novel, the film is set in the early 1940s, and describes a year in the life of a poor, uprooted cowhand and his family in the drought-ridden sertão of the Brazilian Northeast. The film is stark in its imagery, powerful in its documentation of the retirante (uprooted), who is dependent on a feudal landowning system. A realistic depiction of the wretched of the earth, Barren Lives is still relevant today; it reads as a white-hot, almost mystically intense pilgrim’s progress through a purgatory that seemingly has no end. Nelson Pereira dos Santos is scheduled to be present. (35mm. 103 min. Not Rated.) Jorgensen Guest Lecture with Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Darlene Sadlier Monday April 15 3:00 p.m. Music According to Tom Jobim (A Música Segundo Tom Jobim) (2011) Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos Tuesday - April 16 - 7:00 p.m. The extraordinary musical universe of Antônio Carlos (Tom) Jobim can be presented without dialog or narration. It was with this in mind that Nelson Pereira dos Santos accepted the challenge of committing the musical trajectory of the great Brazilian composer to film. In 1985, Pereira dos Santos produced a four-hour documentary about Jobim for Brazilian television. Based on that experience, he knew the power of Jobim on screen, and that the images of his performances required no words. It’s all there - the power, beauty and poetry of his bossa nova music, the phases of the artist’s career, and the importance of his work to other artists. No need of further explanation, just the pleasure of hearing Tom Jobim! Nelson Pereira dos Santos is scheduled to be present. (HD Cam. 84 min. Not Rated.) 43 cinema.indiana.edu Nelson Pereira dos 855-1103 43 Tickets: (812) Santos