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Leaving São Paulo 

a video and fotonovela 

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas 

BBE

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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data. 

Dugas, Daniel H. 

LeBlanc, Valerie 

ISBN 978-0-9952531-0-0 


by Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas 

Version .5 / July 20, 2016 

Published by Basic Bruegel Editions 

Moncton, NB Canada 

www.basicbruegel.com 

BBE 

ABOUT 

Leaving São Paulo, the video 

While the editing process of video / film is often used to speed up the 

time perspective in relation to a particular storyline (basically, the story 

has to be told within the standard ninety minutes), the editing of Leaving 

São Paulo offers the viewer chances to meditate upon the irony of travel 

deadlines and the meaning of cultural exposure during a very condensed 

journey. 

Scribbled notes have been organized by date and interspaced over 20 

minutes of running time. The footage has been significantly slowed to 

allow the viewer time and space to take in more than could be experienced 

in a real time taxi ride from downtown São Paulo to the airport. Color 

treatment references both the exotic visual cityscape and retrospective 

travel postcards available in downtown newsstands. The slowed musical 

score becomes a meditative drone. 

Leaving São Paulo, the fotonovella 

Laying out photo stills from the video with the texts over top is another 

way of slowing the passage of time. It allows chances to savor the words 

and images. 

VL / DHD 

July 19, 2016 

leavingsaopauloblog.wordpress.com


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