Fabricating Tom Zé is a documentary that portrays the life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary mixes different video, film and animation formats in order to show a detailed vision of Tom Zé's personal musical universe, in which a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the same melodic importance. In intimate interviews, he narrates different parts of his life and tells us about his musical debut in the early 60s, his downfall during the 70s and his 90s comeback. The film carries interviews with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, David Byrne and others. Tom Zé, at his 70th anniversary continues to produce highly original music.
Tom Zé puts on one hell of a show. He may start a performance standing next to one of his percussionists, the two of them hitting each other over the head with hammers (wearing hard hats of course, for maximum rhythmic effect). Two-and-a-half hours later, somewhere around his fifth encore, Zé might compose a new song, insisting that the audience sing along. Fabricating Tom Zé, intimately directed by the musician’s buddy, Décio Matos Jr., tracks Zé’s recent European tour, and the creative charisma of both documentarian and star really keep the film humming. Born Antonio Jose Santana Martins, Zé was one of the originators of the Tropicalismo movement that reenergized traditional Brazilian music in the late ’60s with socially relevant lyrics and pop-rock stylistics that captivated an entire generation. Along with cohorts Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and psychedelic Brazilian band Os Mutantes, Zé radicalized his country’s music and, by extension, its politics, though it wasn’t until big fan David Byrne reissued some of Zé’s recordings on his Luaka Bop label that the musical dynamo became better known in the U.S. Since then, Zé has collaborated with Chicago-based post-rock band Tortoise and attracted larger audiences than ever before. A mash-up artist some 30 years before the genre was popularized, Zé still revels in musical extremes, exemplified by his samba version of Deep Purple’s "Smoke on the Water" mixed with the Beatles’ "Hey Jude." To say that this high-spirited portrait of a truly great musician will have audiences head-bopping and hip-swinging is no fabrication.
—Hannah Eaves [San Francisco International Film Festival
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