While the editing process of video / film is often used to speed up the time perspective in relation to a particular storyline, the editing of Leaving São Paulo offers the viewer chances to meditate upon the irony of travel deadlines and the meaning of cultural exposure during a very condensed journey.

Scribbled notes have been organized by date and interspaced over 20 minutes of running time. The footage has been significantly slowed to allow the viewer time and space to take in more than could be experienced in a real time taxi ride from downtown São Paulo to the airport. Split screen and colour treatments reference the exotic visual cityscape. The slowed musical score becomes a meditative drone.