Spotlight on Villa Albertine Resident Lucas Roxo at the Great Cities Institute

The Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago will host a screening of “Listen to the Walls Fall” (Écoute les murs tomber) and “No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On” (Aucun homme n’est né pour être piétiné) by 2024 Villa Albertine Resident Lucas Roxo. This event, marking the final day of Roxo’s residency in Chicago, will be followed by an engaging discussion with the director himself.
Free event – Open to the public

Films

“Listen to the Walls Fall” is is a feature-length documentary, structured as a diptych taking place at both ends of France: Marseille and Calais. It tells the story of how human beings, driven by the desire to come and go, to live and to free themselves from prohibitions and dead-ends, circumvent, alone or in groups, what encloses them, prevents them, constrains them. Two journeys shaped by the perspectives of the people who inhabit each place.

“No Man Was Born to Be Stepped On” tells the story of a social bandit in northern Brazil and examines how his legacy resonates with anti-Bolsonaro activists today.

About the filmmaker

Lucas Roxo is a documentary filmmaker and a media educator. Convinced that information should not be produced only by professionals, his work consisted in settling in popular neighborhoods to participate in the creation of community media. In parallel, he pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker. He was the author of the short documentary I feel your absence, about his family’s exile from Portugal to France, and just finished his second short film, No man was borned to be stepped on, which tells the story of a social bandit in northern Brazil and how its memory echoes with anti-Bolsonaro activists today.