INTERVIEW WITH BETH FILIPECKI, COSTUME DESIGNER FOR CAPITU (2008)

Abstract

The costume designer and university professor tells how she has been bringing her two occupations together for over thirty years by permanently interacting with colleagues and students from both fields in an exchange of knowledge involving professors, directors, producers, researchers, actors, actresses, visual artists, set designers, lighting technicians, make-up technicians, assistants, seamstresses, tailors, prop masters and craftsmen. In the interview granted to Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva and Mariana Millecco in Rio de Janeiro on September 22, 2016, Filipecki discusses the stages involved in creating the costumes for literary characters and explains the thought and production process for the miniseries Capitu, directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, for which she created the costumes of some of the most famous and complex of Machado de Assis’s creations.