Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia Desire moves like an undertow

Desire moves like an undertow between them all

Mild Vertigo explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a middle-class home

a sense of the dark streets of occupied Paris

they spend hour after hour in front of the radio

he is shot dead on a street corner

Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia Desire moves like an undertowAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil. In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milos slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever