Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema 2025
Technology/Transformation
June 30th to July 4th

July 2nd

21:30,  Film Screening + Q&A
O Homem da Multidões, Cao Guimarães and Marcelo Gomes
Cinema Trindade
Conversation at the end between Cao Guimarães and Inês Grosso

O Homem das Multidões
Fic, 2013, 95’

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais: two different stories of loneliness. Juvenal (Paulo André), a subway train driver, struggles with the impossibility of being alone. To feel better, he loses himself in the large crowds of the city.
Margô (Sílvia Lourenço), a station inspector, can’t detach herself from social media, exchanging the real world for the virtual one.

Cao Guimarães is a filmmaker and visual artist, born in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, where he lives and works. His work lies at the intersection of cinema and the visual arts. Actively producing since the late 1980s, his pieces are part of numerous prestigious collections, including Tate Modern (UK), MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Colección Jumex (Mexico), Inhotim (Brazil), and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), among others.
He is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler (São Paulo) and Galerie Xippas (Paris and Montevideo).