THE SOUND OF PUTARIA

This short film is a journey through time, traversing the history of image technologies—from television to artificial intelligence—to explore the explicit genre in Brazilian music as an aesthetic of desire, humor, and the performance of masculinity. The story begins in 2008, when I started recording my first videos. I'm browsing the internet and exchanging messages on a dating site when my computer is invaded by a cybernetic entity that says: the future is now. From that moment on, the computer ceases to be a machine and becomes a gateway to cyberspace, a space-time where memory, fantasy, and desire coexist. A television screen then appears, the first great electronic window to the world. It is through it that the music video becomes language and transforms music into image. Guided by the first signs on this screen, I cross the threshold of cyberspace, my space-time of action. Time accelerates, and my young body ages on the screen. It is not just a passage of years, but the materialization of a possible future. My aging body continues, on the screen, producing desires at the end of an afternoon on a paradisiacal beach. Night falls. I am in a forest. My human body can no longer express desire. I am an animal, prey in the forest. I am both hunter and hunted. Desire ceases to be human, assuming primitive, mythological, and imaginary forms. From the forest, we are transported to an ancient Greek bathhouse where the god Bacchus dwells and coexists with virile men. Narratives of the fiction of masculinity... Sitting in front of the computer, I find it all amusing. Then, we arrive in 2026. Rio is no longer Rio de Janeiro. The city is what I imagine it to be, what I wanted it to be. My body is no longer physical, but a projection of the past. Expanded by the resources of artificial intelligence, it becomes a cyber-body that inhabits the city of my dreams. And in this place, anything can happen, because life is a carnival. Between archives of the past and technologies of the present, autofiction transforms my memory into fantasy. The music accompanies each stage of this journey, transforming the narrative into an audiovisual experience where sound and image evolve together. In the end, I discover that the future was never a destination, but a fiction constructed by technology, desire, and the images we invent to inhabit the world.