Screening - "Skin of Glass" by Denise Zmekhol
- School life
Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. - Amphi Jean Duminy
Skin of Glass follows director Denise Zmekhol's journey after discovering that her father's most famous work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo known as Pele de Vidro ("Skin of Glass"), had been occupied by hundreds of unhoused people. Roger Zmekhol had designed the building for corporate offices, but in 1964, just as it was nearing completion, a military coup allowed the government to seize the building. The Pele de Vidro was used as a federal police station before being abandoned in 2003. Zmekhol traces the shape of Brazil's recent history through these changing forms of use. The film delicately blends the personal and the political in a meditation on displacement, inequality and loss.
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