In Maria do Ingá, the production design constructs space as territory and memory through a scenographic device that dialogues with theater and installation art. Maria’s house, the Colonel’s farm, and the roads reveal an intimate relationship between social landscape and cinematic artifice, inviting the viewer to a gaze in which space unfolds in its sensitive and symbolic dimension, through an aesthetic where the fantastic gleams. The production design thus affirms cinema’s power as a magical construction of worlds.
Maria do Ingá
Production design for the feature film Maria do Ingá, by Th Fernandes and Lua Lamberti (2024, in post-production). In the countryside of Paraíba, Tuca and her sister Maria experience a life of hardships, working in the household of a landowner after the passing of their father. Maria falls in love with the landowner’s son, Raí, but a hidden secret separates them, forcing Maria to flee to the city of Maringá, in Paraná.
See below still photos and layouts from the film.
Production Company: Cosmos Filmes (Paraná)
Country: Brazil
Images: Lírica Aragão
