Proxy Reverso [Reverse Proxy] is a feature-length film made with computer screenshots captured by directors Guilherme Peters and Roberto Winter. The film tells the fictional story of Davi Reis, a young computer technician from the city of São Paulo, who after losing his job is coaxed into taking part in the risky plan of his friend Luis Pires, a narcissistic freelance journalist obsessed with fame. Luis wants to use Davi's hacker skills to access confidential data proving that the polling Institute Vox Populi reported fraudulent results on a survey about voting intentions in the lead-up to Brazil's 2014 presidential election.
The screenshots were captured throughout 2014, at the time and date of the scene shown, as evidenced by the clock on the task bar of the computer they were captured on. Thus, despite that it's a fictional story, the characters interact with stimuli from the world at large that enter via...Internet, depicting events that are sometimes simulated, sometimes drawn from real life. The separation between truth and fiction or between the real and the virtual becomes blurred and the film is also presented as a mockumentary.
This bold aesthetic approach won the film three awards at the VII edition of the Semana dos Realizadores Festival, held annually in Rio de Janeiro: the Special Jury Prize, from the festival's official jury; the EDT Inventive Editing Prize in the feature film category from the Associação de Profissionais de Edição Audiovisual do Rio de Janeiro; and the ABD Independent Audiovisual Prize for Best Feature Film, from the Associação Brasileira de Documentaristas do Rio de Janeiro.
Proxy Reverso is a commentary on the ease of creating truths through widely accessible tools and about how entities in the fields of communication and power can use those truths for furthering their own interests.
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