A film that deals with the bitterness and worry of a casual worker in the countryside of Brazil. The film tries to capture the working moments, the instants at his mother’s bar and the dates with Katia, his girlfriend, in an isolated park of the city. In the last years, Brazil has been passing through a delicate moment politically and economically, driving some workers to the emptiness of daily life. The biggest challenge we try to achieve with this production, is to show how this worker deals with all these feelings of emptiness and the latent vices caused by this situation. Gil is an ordinary man, like many other Brazilians. Mrs. Maria, his mother, is only one more lady dealing with the daily work at her bar. Gil’s day’s work transforms into the mystery of the night. This transfiguration is built and permeated by the popular songs of the radio and try to narrate Gil’s life: a guy that is slowly disappearing. In the core of the aesthetics of “All I could see was the sun”, we look for the most extraordinary on this process of disappearing.
Biography
Ralph Antunes is a director, editor and producer. Graduated in Digital Arts at the Fine Arts School of UFMG, he produced and co-directed the short films Carga Viva (2013), Boa Morte (2015), Praça do Peixe (2018) and Tudo Que Vi Era o Sol (2023), which were shown at important festivals such as Doclisboa, FIC Valdivia, Málaga, Brasília and Tiradentes. As an artistic assistant, since 2014 he has collaborated with filmmaker and artist Cao Guimarães, coordinating the workflow of the artist’s audiovisual and photographic productions and communicating his studio with art institutions around the world. Together with Pedro Maia de Brito, he is currently developing his first feature film, The Scarlet Temple Oracle, winner of the prize for best project in development in the Arché – Doclisboa’23.