Portraiture is often as much about the setting as it is about its frontal subject. Here, six artists bring us provocative portraits placed in a setting called Brazil. Roberto Berliner's One Is Fit for What One Is Born (corr: You Are What You Are Born For) (A pessoa é para o que nasce) (1998, 6 mins) evokes the surprising wit and wisdom of three blind sisters who sing for their survival on the streets of Paraíba. Painful memories surge forward as Rio-based Marcia Antabi taunts the silence in Hanah (Under the Skin) (Sob a pele) (1997, 8 mins), a dreamlike work linking the artist to her grandmother's troubled past. Marcondes Dourado's Ogodô Ano 2000 (1996, 12 mins) transforms Carnival in Salvador into a fleshy procession of images that sensually undulate like desire itself. Using translucent layering, Lucila Meirelles's Blind Oliveira in His Deserted Sight (Cego Oliveira no sertão do seu olhar) (1998, 17:20 mins) conveys the hazy world of a partially sighted fiddler from the sertão. Sandra Kogut's Here and There (Lá e cá) (1995, 25 mins) is a piquant narrative about a lively working-class woman contemplating a move to the upscale Zona Sul in Rio. Combining documentary-style camera with spicy dramatic stagings, this work beautifully explores her old neighborhood with all its seductive vitality. Interspersed with the above tapes will be episodes from Eder Santos's Geography of Shadows (Geografia de sombras) (1998, 7 segments, approx. 13 mins), magical tone-poems about cityscapes and their occupants.-Steve Seid