Director:Beto Sporkens

Film: Spark (2022)

Bio: “SPARK” addresses our relationship with Time, Aging and the paradoxes of Knowledge, through the clash between views of Philosophy, Physics and personal experience around one of the most important theories in the history of science: the Theory of Relativity .

Created by Albert Einstein, the Theory of Relativity was proven more than 100 years ago to the world through an experiment carried out IN BRAZIL. And later, he ended up changing the course of history with one of mankind’s most infamous and dangerous inventions: the atomic bomb.
With the participation of philosopher Mario Sergio Cortella, poet Rubem Alves (in memorian) and one of the last survivors of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, Takashi Morita, Átimo talks about this small cosmic spark that makes up our lives.

The project gained even more educational character after Brazil became involved, from 2018, in a thick fog of lies, denialism and anti-scientific radicalism. Identified and strengthened in large groups formed on social media, they dedicated themselves to denying things like Covid19, vaccines, democracy, basic socio-environmental rights and all kinds of science.

ONE OF THEM GAINED THE MEDIA AND FOLLOWERS DENYING ALBERT EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY, AND EVEN FILED A POLICE PROCEEDING “COUNTLESS ERRORS AND DISTURBS IN THE SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION OF THE PLANET BECAUSE OF THE THEORY” (no, he didn’t dedicate himself to studying physics to challenge Einstein ). Brazil, or a good part of it, is at war against Knowledge. This film was made so that young people in Brazil also know who Einstein was, what his brilliant mind was capable of and WHERE he got the definitive proof of his theory. And it does so by studying one of the most representative examples of the paradox that science and knowledge represent for Humanity.