Background information
Below, one will find a series of links and references. The wide scope of different sources gives a first insight in the many parallel realities that coexist in São Paulo's dynamic urban reality.
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Documentaries
For those that are interested to delve into the cultural richness that Brazilian and São Paulese cinema has produced we recommend several films and documentaries that revolve around the social and spatial issues that mark the Paulistan society. Either pass at your local video-rental to hire a copy or approach the CSI.SP organizers.
Documentaries. Shot in São Paulo:
- A Margem do Concreto (Mocarzel, 2005)
- A Margem da Imagem (Mocarzel, 2003)
- A Margem do Lixo (Mocarzel, 2007)
- Dia de Festa
- Motoboys, Vida Loca (Caito Ortiz, 2003)
- Descobrindo São Paulo (Cakofi)
- São Paulo, SP
- São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima (Person, 1965)
- Elevado 3.5
- Cronicamente Inviável
- Linha de Passe
- O ano em que os meus paid sairam de ferias
- O Invasor
- Não por acaso
- Cinco Vezes Favel (Farias & Borges, 1962)
- Domesticas (Maids)
- Carandiru
- Blindness
- Cidade de Deus (City of God)
- Justiça
- O Homem que copiava
- Beyond Citizen Kane
- Cabra Cega
- Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Brunel)
- Gaijin, os caminhos da Liberdade
Short videos
- Flying over São Paulo (1)
- Flying over São Paulo (2)
- Flying over São Paulo (3)
- City of conrete (recommended)
- Sequence of historical images an videos
- Alfredo Brillembourg (Urban Thinktank) in favela Paraisópolis (1)
- Alfredo Brillembourg (Urban Thinktank) in favela Paraisópolis (2)
- Urban Thinktank Caracas (VPRO)
- Demonstrations against large urban projects for the elite
- Mercado municipal
- Arts and Survival on the streets
- Street grafity
- Poor São Paulo
Articles
For those that are interested to delve into the cultural richness that Brazilian and São Paulese cinema has produced we recommend several films and documentaries. Either pass at your local video-rental to hire a copy or approach the CSI.SP organizers.
Books
City of Walls (Theresa Caldeira)
Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in São Paulo poses essential questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary democratic societies. Focusing on São Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, she identifies new patterns of segregation developing in these cities and suggests that these patterns are appearing in many metropolises.
Links
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