Entrevista com Fantasmas
2026 · 10m · Brazil
Directed by Lincoln Péricles
Genres: comedy, documentary, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
A young filmmaker interviews an actress who claims a hundred-year career, in a film that mutates from farce to mockumentary to archive film to homage to cinema.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A hundred-year acting career in ten minutes—the premise alone is delicious enough to reject on principle, except Péricles actually *does* it, sliding between farce and mockumentary and archive like he's daring you to find the floor. This is the kind of shape-shifter that makes consensus scouts deeply uncomfortable, which is exactly the point.
The formal architecture here is genuinely rigorous: each tonal mutation lands as a deliberate gesture toward cinema's own mythology, and the layering of documentary with homage suggests a filmmaker aware of his place in a lineage of meta-cinema. The restraint in execution—ten minutes to hold this unstable form—demonstrates real curatorial control.
The decision to anchor absurdity in a single performance—letting the actress carry the tonal shifts rather than cutting away from her—is what elevates this from a concept into something earned; that commitment to holding the shot while everything else spins is what makes a small film feel inevitable.
Reviews
A farsa bem humorada que se transforma em 'mockumentary', que se transforma em filme de arquivo, que se transforma em homenagem ao cinema, sem nunca perder o timing. 'Entrevista com Fantasmas' não se trata apenas do encontro que é presenciado em cena, mas também do diálogo que nasce entre os gêneros, entre os tempos.