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I, Getulio Vargas

• Starring Jeffrey Cristiani and Blythe Coleman-Mumford
• 16mm film, 11 min, Fall 2007
• Reproduction of a Dirty Wars-era Brazilian interrogation scene, experienced by one viewer at a time in a residential basement room in Oberlin, OH.

I, Getulio Vargas is an exploration of the processes of narrative and history-making. The film creates a fictional character from a historical one, a persona from what was once a person: Getulio Vargas. Exposing the modes of imitation that drive all narrative cinema, this faux documentary interrogates the viewer into confessing his own imitative role—you are Getulio Vargas.