Smoking Cinema – Favela on Blast (mit Engl. UT)

For 20 years, a subculture in Brazil has emerged under society’s radar. Favela on Blast tells the stories of sex, love, poverty and pride for Rio’s marginalized people. They have their own language, style and heroes. This documentary by Leandro HBL and DIPLO shows the culture surrounding „Funk Carioca“, a musical rhythm that mixes the American electronic funk of the 1980’s with the most diverse influences of Brazilian music. Bombastic rhythms coming from the Miami Bass and loops and samples are united to powerful rap vocal using Brazilian slang. It is one of the most interesting musical movements in the world, and it comes from one of the most violent and poorest places too: the slums of Rio de Janeiro. It’s music that is crass, dirty, violent and loud – but regardless, it is the soundtrack of the lives of a dismissed population.