Today in class we watched Glauber Rocha’s Terra em Transe, from 1967. The film synthesizes the political and historical paradigms of revolution and military dictatorship, with the cinematic paradigms of the allegorical. Rocha uses different techniques of camera movement, editing and sound mixing to explore the themes of revolution during dictatorship, through an allegorical way of storytelling. In Terra em Transe, the camera is always moving with the characters and the crowd-the camera work feels very restless and reminds us of French new wave films, specifically Godard’s films like Breathless and Masculine Feminine, which were made years before Terra em Transe was shot. Additionally, Terra em Transe’s sound design includes non-diegetic addition of gunshots sounds as well as what sounds like large crowd noises, during scenes when these noises would not be present diegetically or narratively. This addition of sounds aligns with Rocha’s use of the cinematic paradigm of the allegorical, as the sounds do not originate from the direct scene they are matched up with.