Black Berlin's Teaser

Black Berlin ("Black Berlim") - Teaser from Sabrina Fidalgo on Vimeo.

Teaser of my short film "Black Berlin" ("Black Berlim") whose premiére in Rio de Janeiro will take place at Caixa Cultural during the festival "Espelho Atlântico Mostra Cinematogéafica" on 15th May. See you there!

A Night at the Nazi Mansion? - ADIDAS Originals Party in Rio

It seems german label Adidas has hosted a very strange party which took part last Friday night, 23th May, at a mansion decorated with "Nazis works of art" in... Rio de Janeiro! It could be a bad taste joke but unfortunately it isn't. Local producers seems to have rented the "wrong" place to promote an international Adidas Originals Party action (for V.I.Ps only). According to the blog of Brazilian writer João Paulo Cuenca, who was one of the party guests, the house had a swimming pool with tiles decorated with swastikas, as you can see in the pictures - the pics were made by himself and by poet and author Michel Melamed. Moreover, he says, one of the bars of the house had a poster with the inscription "Kriegsmarine Hamburg", which was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime. To complete, in one of the rooms, there was a table designed with the image, probably of a Nazi military. After realized the "horror" of the mansion's decoration the two upset guests leave the place. But before they have photographed those "strange objects" and immediately published the images in their own blogs. But it seems other guests did not care so much for the presence of Nazi objects at the mansion and continued having fun.

The most bizarre fact of this scary history was the neglect of the production to rent a "haunted house" just to organize a party of a German brand. By the way: Adidas already apologized and put the blame on the party producers/promoters and also gave the name of the owner of the mansion.

And even worst is the fact that some guests have accused Cuenca and Melamed of being "troublemakers" by spreading the pictures of the objects from the mansion out. Some of them even wondered at Cuenca's blog: "What's so wrong with swastikas designed tiles in a swimming pool? Who cares?"


Shame, shame, shame, shame on you!

Updating: German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, from Berlin, has published a comprehensive article about the case, namely Feiern zwischen Hakenkreuzen.

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Goodbye, "Pitti".

Portrait of Adriana "Pitti" Pittigliani published by german magazine Neon.

My dearest friend Adriana Pittigliani has passed away this morning at the age of 46. Unfortunately she didn't get to win the war against cancer. "Pitti", as she was known among her friends, was one of the most influentials and creatives Brazilian photographers since late 80's and during the whole 90's, taking great pictures of over 200 hundred magazine covers like Sui Generis (the first gay oriented Brazilian magazine), over 300 hundred Cd's covers of many of the greatest names of MPB ("Música Popular Brasileira") , books, and so on. Genial and visionary she gave up of her very well established career at the age of 44 to become the brain and the heart of CARIOCA FUNK CLUBE, a multimidia project created to spread out Funk Carioca to the world and support its artists. One of them, Sany Pitbull, became the biggest name of CFC and his work together with Pitti came into an increadible symbiosis, which took Sany and his magic MPC to four big european tours in only a year and a half (!!!), among other things. Crazy, supportive, talkative and smart, "Pitti", with her unforgettable Aristotle's Rhetoric, was generous enough to introduce, connect, communicate and help lot's of people to her "Knowledgeland" by sharing ideas, ways and new conceptions about the present and the future of the Funk Carioca movement. She believed and supported my documentary "City of Funk" since the very beginning of the project, opening doors and showing me new possibilities about this theme. Now Pitti is gone, but her passion, vision and big heart will be forever alive in our hearts. Rest in peace, my lovely friend. Respect!

More of "Pitti":

Pitti + Pitibull: Adriana and Sany, Rio de Janeiro, 2007.


Sabrina Fidalgo by Adriana Pittigliani, Berlin, 2006.

Beautiful Berlin and 3 Angels for Charlie.

So I'm back to Berlin since exactly 2 weeks. It seems there is some strong vibration here which prevents me to definitively change the date of my flight ticket back to Rio. I actually changed it 3 times already and I feel really sad to have to leave sunny Berlin with its tons of unique peoples from all over the world riding happy their bikes on the streets as nothing else would matter. And also there are some aphrodisiac atmosphere here, which makes the german capital even more interesting specially when the sun is shinning. And, well, three angels will live without Charlie this summer, unfortunately. ): But life goes on still under the line of the Ecuador and Charlie will be back soon!

How to avoid "spongers" or "borrowers"?

There is this kind of people who never feels ashamed by asking you for favours more and more and more. This kind of people or at lest a very specific kind of them use to act in a very cute, "innocent", lovely and nice way at the first sight but after a while...