The Last Fitzcarraldo travel....

Kkaus Kinsky in Werner Herzog's film

THE IDEA

Patrocinio is a small town in the Southeast of Brazil, in Minas Gerais state. Especially when it comes to movie theaters, the city (as all small towns in Brazil) lacks this kind of facility. With that in mind, a small group of people in different areas would like to create a different non-standard theater to be offered to these people, with non-profit films. At the same time, this city has an unused public space that could - with just a few interferences, fit a movie theater like that as a pair of gloves! This space was remodeled into a city market, but it has been going through many difficulties. Originally, this market was built at the same place, it was a one-story building with no specific architectural style. After this remodelling, the building got a "new" neoclassic style.

A ramp was built connecting the two floors making it a double space, exactly like a mezzanino, or better, like a foyer.

Inside the empty public space, which is not used by the stores, could be used to hold a small movie theater.

Municipal Market of Patrocinio - Interior view

SMALL MOVIE THEATERS IN BRAZIL - THE CINECLUBE

The "cineclube" was the way that wiewers of public and private associations created to make small movie theaters in the countryside of Brazil since the beginning of the last century.

The final cost of the filme copy in Brazil made it more expensive, so the solution was to create an association of viewers who paid a monthly tuition and had a quota of that association.

"The Brazilian experience followed this pattern, with the presence of the cineclubes of the 20s, the foundation of the Brazilian Cinematheque, in São Paulo, in the 50s, followed by the creation of MAM (Modern Art Museum) of Rio the Janeiro. The universities come to the cinema after the museums and, inside them, the students come before their Schools. This is the case of "Cinema Clube" created in the Philophy, Science and Arts and Literature, in 1940, as a studies and discussion center, in the forming spirit that marked such initiatives since the muted movies." - PAULO EMILIO SALES GOMES - THE CINEMA STUDIE - REVISTA ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS - UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO