In 2012, the Wexner Center for the Arts embarked on Via Brasil, an ambitious project involving multiple curators and disciplines, to bring the contemporary art and culture of Brazil to American audiences. In this WexCast, Director of Film/Video David Filipi hosts a discussion about the final piece of the project: the first expansive English language translation of work by the late Brazilian film critic Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes, which will be published in Summer 2017 by I. B. Tauris. An engaging, thoughtful writer, Gomes covered not just the films he saw but the experience of moviegoing, and his efforts had an enormous impact on the growth of film culture in his native country. Listen to learn more from co-editors of "On Brazil and Global Cinema" Maite Conde and Stephanie Dennison, UCLA professor Randall Johnson, and Brazilian filmmaker and critic Kleber Mendonça Filho, director of Aquarius.
