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A prophet discovers that he can literally cause his thoughts to be manifested as projections from his forehead. No wonder that his flock of disciples rapidly grows - as does the number of interpretations of this miraculous proficiency. The origin of each heavenly message is shrouded in mists; the Sphynx spoke in riddles, Tiresias was a blind seer whose message was ignored and the simple words of Jesus led to profound hair-splitting. Rarely has a work of art justified its title as fully as this: the viewer listens in complete confusion. The prophet is on his way to Santiago and communicates with countless people who each proceed on a lost path of love. A scholar couples a lecture on Dutch beer with the mines of Gerais, a woman says that black is fundamental, another feels that television promotes transparency. Intelligence = pot pourri. Texts are sometimes perfectly repeated by other people. The viewer listens to a known language, but with a bizarre idiom as if everyone is speaking in tongues. The structure of the logic is only recognisable in disconnected sentences, not in the totality. The prophet is in discussion with the Pope (in archive footage), but their conversation remains an obscure paragraph. Will people ever learn to listen?
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Erik Daams
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Camera Adam Cohen, Pedro Ionescu, Marco Túlio Guglielmoni, Editing Marcio Daneliczin, Anselmo Lafetá, Éder Santos, Sound Bernard Seidler, Music Stephen Vitiello, MusicEffects Ricardo Fiúza, computer graphics Carlos Eduardo SâMotta, Rogério Godoy, Ronaldo Zenóbio, make-up Maria Rosa, Andréa Maia, Costumes Gerard Camors, Christiane Mesquita, Decors Thomas Nölle, Choreography Carmen Purri, Production Emvideo, Danish Film Institute, Marcelo Braga
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