Plot
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major ... See full summary »
Storyline
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.
Writers: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Cast: Sebastião Salgado -
Himself - Photographer
Wim Wenders -
Himself /
Narrator
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado -
Himself /
Narrator
Hugo Barbier -
Himself
Jacques Barthélémy -
Himself
Lélia Wanick Salgado -
Herself - Sebastião's wife and collaborator
Country: France, Brazil, Italy
Language: French, Portuguese, English
Release Date: 27 March 2015
Filming Locations: Yalimo, Papua, Indonesia
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Rating: 10/10
Wim Wenders being Wim Wenders, he has nothing left to prove about movie
making. So most of this documentary is simply made by the pictures of
Sebastião Salgado, and by close-ups of his face: he is looking at the
images (but through the screen at the same time), while telling and
explaining to the audience the genesis and the reasons of his work. It
is very simple, yes, but at the same time it's extremely powerful. So
powerful that, after a while, I was under the impression that those
still b/w images were alive: crowds in the mass scenes seemed to move,
people in portraits looked like they were going to turn their heads,
and talk.
This movie should be shown in schools. The work of Salgado has
testified some of the major (but lesser known) disasters of recent
world history, none of which came within ear of the western world -
much more interested in the brilliant lives of the fashion victims than
in the tragic fate of the casualties of famines and wars.
Nietzsche famously once wrote: "When you look into the abyss, the abyss
also looks into you". Salgado had the guts to stare to the abyss,
without blinking - but clicking. He did it to give to others the
opportunity to know, and possibly to better understand the meaning of
the term "humanity". Some of Sebastião Salgado images are horrible, but
it is by far more horrible to think that without him those horrors
would have happened with nobody to remember about them. His work
creates grounds for memory, and memory grows some chances for hope, and
hope give us and some reason to believe in a better future for our
troubled planet.
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