Last week,
the passing away of two remarkable people
caused a strong commotion to many of us. He was
an european, white male, working with exact sciences.
She was a bla.ck, brazilian woman, working with human sciences.
In spite of all these differences,
there were many interests that were
common to Hawking and Marielle Franco.
They were both very emphatic on their belief
that we need more dialogue,
better communication, we need to listen to each other.
Hawking´s health complications
made him talk through machine for most of his life,
did not stop him from becoming one of the biggest
promoters of scientific thought of all time.
Despite the complexity of his
studies.
The difficulties lived by Marielle, born in
social strata that usually have their voices silenced
did not stop her
from becoming one of the top-voted 
councilwoman
in Rio de Janeiro, stablishing
dialogues with both the victims of police brutality
and the criminal violence victims´ families.
Despite all of their differences,
last week we lost two
living exemples of the importance
of dialogue and communication, and of creating
their own narratives. Despite the massive stream
of information in wich we live, or, maybe,
because of this stream of information,
perhaps this is the most important moment
for us to learn how to communicate.
The following cut is about this.
It overlays images by Stanley
Kubrick to a speech by
Stephen Hawking set to music by Pink Floyd
I edited a bit of the original material
so this cut could communicate its ideas
according to the moment. This is a tribute and a small solace.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Coming from the favelas, I was strongly questioned when I started to dialogue
with police officers. Because of the ways I was attacked by them - not necessarily phisically, -
maybe I would stop looking at their uniforms and seeing the person that wears it.
I have severe critics to the institution, but Ilearned how to dialogue with public safety agents.
The marks of homidice are not only present in researches, papers, numbers. They are mostly present
in the heart of every mother of a favela inhabitant, every mother of a cop who lost his life.
No kind of apology or excuse, official or not official, can offer solace  to the mothers that lost their children.
How many people will have to die before this war comes to and end?"
- MARIELLE FRANCO.
