henrique landulfo
Volunteer ** 1864
Producer and Director's Assistant
Directed by Sandra Kogut
Brazil has the world’s second highest death toll due to COVID-19. The government’s necropolitics can be captured in two little words uttered by President Jair Bolsonaro at the height of the pandemic: “So what?”
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Spread through out the far-flung corners of the country, this diverse and courageous group of vaccine trial volunteers had one thing in common: they believed in a future. As an artist eager to understand this experimental reality but unable to meet the trial subjects in person, Sandra Kogut decided to turn them into filmmakers. Just as people were going to produce a clinical diary for the study, Kogut asked each one of the volunteers to also make personal video diaries using their phones. Over a period of nine months these subjects documented their homes and lives… making this intimate and timely documentary possible.