Film Info
HU

Film Information

Exhibition Title	HU
Original Title	HU
English Title	HU Enigma
Directors	Pedro Urano Joana Traub Csekö
Country
Year	2011
Format	DM
Colour	Color
Duration	78'

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Pedro Urano, Joana Traub Csekö
Fotografía / Cinematography: Pedro Urano
Edición / Editing: Marina Fraga
Producción / Producer: Samantha Capideville
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Alice Filmes

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Synopsis

HU are the initials that commonly describe the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital in Rio de Janeiro: a mass of concrete of 220,000 sq. meters with the Pharaonic size military dictatorships used to plan things with, and built amidst endless incidents throughout several decades. Both claimed and abandoned by different orbits of state administration, it splits inevitably in half. What’s that like, you ask? While half the Pi letter-shaped building managed to survive through budgetary and political ups-and-downs and became a quality medical center, another area was never used and ended up in ruins –thanks to vandalism, floods, and the simple wearing of time. HU, the documentary, goes through very concrete walls in order to depict that amazing duality with interviews to experts (doctors, architects, politicians) and a horror film atmosphere when it goes over to the dark side. And it also allows to be interpreted –especially its devastating final shot– as a tragic metaphor of a certain notion of public affairs, and of dreams that are too big –and of so many other things.