“This film was miraculously made with the meager Covid Emergency Aid Fund, known as the Aldir Blanc Law, with immense effort and wholehearted dedication. For we believe that our culture is our memory, and we must always remember our elders, the first ones, who are often criminally erased from our history.
In this film, we salute the often ignored or forgotten roots of Brazilian music, whether instrumental or symphonic. It is essential that we celebrate its ancestry, the source of the waters drunk by Léa Freire: Filó Machado, Alaíde Costa, Johnny Alf, Originais do Samba, Regional do Evandro, Manezinho da Flauta, in short, musicians ahead of their time, innovators who challenged social and aesthetic standards and founded a new Brazilian music scene, and who should be remembered with all the glory they deserve. Let us just be historically fair.
Although music is the protagonist, this film has some messages beyond music. We talk about FEBEM (Children’s Prison) but also about Projeto Guri, and we ask: what kind of Brazil do we want? What imprisons poor children or what creates public vocational music schools so that our children can fly wherever they want in the world, such as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, which is mentioned in the film.
We talk about the erasure of women from our history, especially when they are creators, inventors of new languages and new forms. We also talk about the Afro-Brazilian origins of all Brazilian music, including symphonic music. We rescue characters who have been conveniently ‘forgotten’. This film is a film about Brazil, its richness, its pains, and its delights. The music and life of this artist is just a way for us to talk about our culture, our roots, our land. As they say, if you want to make a film about the post office, tell the story of a letter.
Against all odds and statistics, we present Nature Music, a feature film that aims to overflow with beauty and poetry in these violent times we live in. Finally, this is not a musical film, nor is it a film ‘about music, for musicians’. It is a film for everyone, with a profound script, research, editing, photography, and sound: the foundations and fundamentals of cinema and what characterizes it as its own language, different from television and journalism. Cinema.”
– Lucas Weglinski, director
