Why did I choose my major?
My passion for cinema did not come in the most usual way. Most people who study it have a desire to communicate and express themselves. In my case it was not like that. When I was a child I wanted to be a physicist, and then in a resounding change, I studied social sciences and read a lot of philosophy. In this period, I became interested in the mechanisms that allow us to think differently, find vanishing points, allowing events to occur and be able to de-automate perception. At the same time that I had these concerns, I also began to experiment a lot in a personal way. I sought to get out of my safe space and explore the world, allowing the world to speak to me. It was during this period that I fell in love with cinema, as a device of subjectivation and as a machine for empathy. Cinema is capable of showing other ways of life, other ways of time, new values, new hierarchies and alongside the actor’s face human challen...