“It's impossible to leave Carga viva and Agente secreto without feeling the desire to also get one's hands dirty and, along with the researchers, start digging into the ground of this territory called Brazil.”

I wrote about the experience of watching O agente secreto, by KLéber Mendonça Filho, and, at the same time, reading Carga viva, by Ana Rüsche, two works that make us think about archive, history, and heritage.