Liquid Voices: The story of Mathilda SegalescuLiquid Voices: The story of Mathilda Segalescu
(2020)
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Liquid Voices: The story of Mathilda Segalescu

A pianist's lost instrument tells the story of her survival after a shipwreck in Palestine.

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The composer, writer and pianist Jocy de Oliveira lent her creative mind to 'Liquid Voices: The Story of Mathilda Segalescu', when she acted as director of the film. Oliveira is an important name in Brazil, she is a pioneer in electronic music in the country; she presented her first electroacoustic work "Apague meu Spotlight" in 1961. Now, she shows her filmmaker side by directing a movie about music, filming in an incredible location - the ruins of the Urca Casino in Rio de Janeiro. The story is a fiction based on the shipwreck of the Struma that took Jews from Romania to Palestine during World War II. 'Liquid Voices: The Story of Mathilda Segalescu' was chosen for the Official Selection of the London International Filmmakers Festival, in February, and won the award for best sound design.

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The cinematic opera 'Liquid Voices: The story of Mathilda Segalescu' tells a fictional narrative set in a factual event creating a fantastic reality. Palestine in 1941. The only survivor of this wrecked ship was her piano found years later by an Arab fisherman in the cost of Siles, Turkey.

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