Vinil Verde by Kleber Mendonca Filho

The film illustrates the disastrous consequences of a daughter’s childish spontaneity and curiosity when her mother gives her a box of records and a record player for her birthday – but tells her ‘Never play the green record’. Vinil Verde is a ‘cine-roman’ in the style of Chris Marker’s La Jetee; its moments are frozen in time in a rather uncomfortable way. To compliment this eerie lack of sound it uses certain diegetic foley to heighten our sensations: vinyl slipping out of record sleeves, packaging being rifled through at a supermarket, lovely physical sounds that get inside your ears and mind and crawl up your back. Enjoy.

Vinil Verde (Green Vinyl, 2004, 16’) from Kleber Mendonça Filho on Vimeo.

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s first feature film ‘Neighbouring Sounds’, is playing at the Barbican Cinema on 5th October, as part of the City Visions film season.