Giovanni Bello

photographer, filmmaker, journalist______________________________________
Photography
Se murió Fidel
Un Paese
Portraits
Passage
Rhymes
Figure

JournalismA Raposa
January 8th
BBC World Service
Commissioned work
TV Folha

Dance films
Presence of Absence
Now then now
Requiem for Clouds
Marble

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now then now

Spring 2025

This film was created in collaboration with my partner, artist Branca Peixoto, during a period of transition, both personal and geographical. On the surface, it's about time anxiety – the ticking, the mechanical urgency we've all internalized. But beneath that, it's about how bodies respond when words fail. As if asking: what if we didn't just endure the countdown, but danced with it?

This film is for anyone who's felt the pressure of "running out of time." Living in London, in its culture obsessed with productivity and urgency, we offer our very Brazilian response: transformation through play. To find rhythm in what feels chaotic, to stretch time rather than be crushed by it.

Our love letter to those suspended moments before everything changes.


The film is making its festival run and will be available online shortly. 
Shown at the collective exhibition Front of House. Hackney Gallery, London, January 2026.

Selected for Dance Digital, Sadler’s Wells' first dance film festival. Sadler’s Wells, London, June 2026.