Director's Works
Late Again, CATERPILLARS GUI BOHN E NINA TORRES
Gui Bohn and Nina Torres are two young directors with individual careers in advertising. By coincidence, they are represented by the same production company—and, as another twist of fate, they also happen to be a couple. As their relationship evolved, they discovered a shared aesthetic vision and decided to collaborate, co-creating and co-directing this project together. Gui Bohn’s background spans a variety of production roles in advertising, which laid the foundation for his career as a director. His style is characterized by a naturalistic approach, favoring contemporary cinematography and subtle, minimalist direction of actors. Nina Torres studied film at ECA-USP but chose to apply her skills in advertising. She spent a few years as a creative assistant before stepping into the director’s role. With a strong visual sensibility, she values cohesive, meticulously crafted storytelling.
With a hypnotic beat and psychedelic trip-hop elements, "Caterpillars" is a song about gentrification. When an entire block was demolished next to the artist's apartment for a skyscraper, the construction site noises kept him awake for two years. One night, he pointed his mic out of his window. The recorded sound of the pile driver became the core beat of the song. Through the eyes of directors Gui Bohn and Nina Torres, a bowling alley now serves as the stage for representing this ravenous and unrestrained competition. Pleasure morphs into greed, as movements of destruction are mechanically repeated to exhaustion: destruction, construction, destruction, construction… Until everything turns to dust.