Soul Detective is on the scene
V2 Cinema presents the short feature The Soul Detective, starring American filmmaker David Lynch, on V2cinema.com.
Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (who’s also producing with LetÃcia de Cássia), the film follows a psychic investigation inside the mind of a recently deceased man, before all his memories vanish. The Soul Detective is the fifth and last episode from Brazilian web series Boundaries of Thought: Think Tank. Together, the five shorts show 54 minutes of footage on-line.
A conversation with the director of Mulholland Drive was only the beginning of the creative process of The Soul Detective. “The interview was not made to be a piece of ‘cinéma vérité’ [cinema of truth], but as a sound and vision experiment, to see how an opinion can become a fiction completely different from its original intent,” says Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro. “The short was structured over atmosphere and instinct, with the use of free association.”
The words of the interviewee are edited between the steps of The Detective (Leandro Lefa) in an abandoned railway car. Davi refers to his first feature film (the upcoming fantasy Beyond the Grave) as the basis for the short. “Beyond the Grave is a popular movie with experimental echoes. I turned that around and made an experimental movie with popular echoes, resulting in The Soul Detective. I was interested in questions of rhythm, internal movement and the search of new soundscapes,” says Davi.
Shot in two days in the city of Porto Alegre, The Soul Detective completes the Think Tank series. Split between five shorts, directed by five different Brazilian filmmakers, it presents almost an hour of interviews and visual essays. Lynch, Beto Brant, Philip Glass, Fernando Arrabal, José Padilha and Wim Wenders are among the stars of each segment. The series is a spin off from the international seminar Boundaries of Thought (aka Fronteiras do Pensamento, 2007-2008) held in Brazil.
Source: V2 Cinema
