03/17/2026
📺 “The 1994 World Cup is a major event for me and for most people of my generation in Brazil. We remember it very fondly - and even have a very clear memory of the succession of TV images, along with the exact lines spoken by the tv commentators, from that penalty shootout. In a way I’m trying to investigate what those images that stuck with me carry within them, as I’m addressing my memories as a young Brazilian boy, navigating the 90s, overhearing the news, grasping little bits of information, trying to make sense of the world as I grew up. It’s been over 30 years now, so I’m also reflecting on who I was and who I became, what the world looked like to me and how I see it now. What remains, what changed, what was lost. There’s a famous word in Portuguese, “Saudade”, for which the closest translation in English is “Nostalgia”. For me, and this is a very personal understanding, what makes “Saudade” different from “Nostalgia” is a component of desire. Here I speak of “desire” not as a longing for something that’s missing, but as a positive force, as something that exceeds us, that propels us beyond our current circumscription. The desire in “Saudade” is a driving force, and one that can’t be pointed at the past, but at the present. I believe saudade allows for us to be transformed and to re-encounter our transformed homes - be home a place, a feeling, an idea, or a dream. Right now, I feel “saudade” of certain dreams, or at least the possibility of dreaming. On my own and collectively. And I surely feel “saudade” of winning the World Cup!“ - .cartaxo, director of ROBERTO BAGGIO
Henrique Cartaxo is a Brazilian video artist, experimental documentarian and film editor. Henrique’s work is centered in the dialogue between archive and memory, sometimes personal memory, sometimes collective memory, often using glitch and noise as signifying devices.
⚽️ Join us for FÚTBOL ON FILM at San Francisco’s on Sunday, March 29!
🗓️ Sunday, March 29 at 12pm
📍 , San Francisco
📢 Co-presented by &
🎟️ Tickets → link in bio
