Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.
Vale is my father, and God is my brother. I am not from the chapel, I am not from São João. My roof is the sky, my bed is the floor. I am from the womb. Lyrics by Jefferson Cordeiro and the people of the Jequitinhonha Valley (MG).
The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to Barão Geraldo because things happen here. Here people love as much as dolls hang themselves and chicken are slaughtered to death. Would I still hang dolls and burn memories in the next 18 years? It astonishes me how less and less I do not care for things that are not my extension. Being my own destruction is the only way. Intimacy is a farewell. All I see is a lot water and all the colors are not enough. All forms of comunication are not enough for a lot of water.
Bachelor in Social Sciences at Unicamp (State University of Campinas) and in Cinema at UFF (Federal Fluminense University). Works as Director in short-length films, Assistant Director in feature films, Editor and Movie Critic. Director of the horror short-length films “Sand Boy” (2022), sponsored by Edital Lab Curta 2021 and “Let the Sun” (2019), released in Cinematéque of MAM (Modern Art Museum) and in Sundown Film Fest, in Germany. As a film critic for "Ganga Bruta” magazine, he covered the 21st and 22nd editions of the Tiradentes Film Festival. Simões was also the curator of the Film Club “Película Livre” in Campinas, São Paulo.
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