Out Loud

Olho da Rua

With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.

Weaving documentary and radical theatre techniques, Brazilian artist and filmmaker Jonathas de Andrade brings together a cast of 100 people to reclaim a public square. Inspired by the techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, this temporary community, made up of vulnerable and unhoused people in the city of Recife, Brazil, improvises a series of actions that transform both the space, the viewer and the community itself. From a kitchen to a dressing room, a parliament to a stage, the public square once again becomes a site of community, ideas and resistance.

This film will screen as part of the programme Shorts: Dreaming Trees.