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Pipa Fever. 2009.

Flying kites is a Brazilian passion just like Samba and Football.

While in Europe and the US young people spend their afternoons in front of a television or computer in Brasil there is a passion that brings everybody out and together. Flying a kite makes young guys stand on the roofs of their favela housings, middle class kids run and scream in the suburban streets and even old men get together for a beer celebrating the sensation of freedom it gives when letting your kite fly high. But that is not the only kick. Cerol, a prohibited mixture of glaspulver and clue is applied on the line in order to cut the kites of the others. While in the thirties bottles were laid on the rails to be cut by the passing train and clue was still homemade, nowadays in kite shops you find the “linea chilena” that already comes with Cerol. Kites belong to Rio just as football and samba- it´s a collective passion that knows no classes.