Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love is her first feature film, a modest 68 minutes long. It focuses on the American poet’s years in Brazil, where she lived between 1951 and the 1970s. It’s not exactly a biopic, but perhaps the most linear and narrative of all the works Vivian has signed. That, however, doesn’t mean it’s conventional. On the contrary, Elizabeth reemerges through an intense manipulation of diverse materials: photographs, animations, visual overlays, excerpts from other films, and a richly layered sound design interweaving natural sounds, some music, and audio recordings of the poet’s letters and poems.