Lincoln Péricles

BIOGRAPHIE

Lincoln Péricles (also known as "LK") was born and lives in the Capão Redondo neighborhood, in a housing project in São Paulo. Son of indigenous immigrants from the forests of the state of Paraná who went to live in poverty in the capital of São Paulo. He is a director, screenwriter, editor and educator, with more than twelve years working on films produced in his neighborhood and territories that have great significance for his people, which have circulated among film clubs and collectives, pirate DVD stalls, national and international festivals. In February 2020, his work was highlighted by Cahiers du Cinéma, considered the largest film publication in the world, which described it as "A cinema far removed from the imagery linked to the favelas, which invents its own form, rough and necessarily imperfect, between intervention and the visual archive of the neighborhood". LK is known in Brazil for bringing elements of Hip Hop culture into his work, making a cinema known as "cine sample", a concept that uses archival materials to construct innovative and unique narratives about the people and cultures he comes from. He is very interested in projects to preserve the audiovisual memory of Brazil's favelas and working class, and develops projects to restore and digitize endangered archives. At the moment, a major retrospective of his work is taking place in Brazil, with the magazine "Descompasso" writing about all of his more than 13 short films. In addition, a film exhibition in the city of Natal-RN is showing his almost complete filmography. For the first time, he is exhibiting a project of his in the United States and it is the first time he has traveled internationally, seeking to expand his thoughts and works beyond Brazil. Fun facts: He was a soccer and basketball player until he was 19, and his first degree was in physical education, which he didn't complete because he pursued a career in cinema, having very young films that won awards at Brazilian festivals, since at the age of 16 he got a camera from his mother's boss and started making films, video art and video poems. "Mutirão: The Movie", the work he is showing at the NFMLA, is a short film that retraces the origins of the construction of his neighborhood, where most of the women built the houses and buildings with their own hands or as a result of the organized struggle of associations. It is narrated by her niece, "Duda", who lives in the neighborhood and whose mother takes part in contemporary housing struggles. The film is constructed together with her character, who takes a childlike look at the past in order to discover and tell about her present. The film is currently being shown in schools in the region and at the school where the main character studies, the students are producing a book to tell the story of the construction of the neighborhood inspired by the film.

FILMOGRAPHIE