In 2011, independent filmmaker Felipe M. Guerra decided to produce a documentary filming the behind-the-scenes of the next project by legendary Brazilian artist Petter Baiestorf. While developing the screenplay of his film, Baiestorf chooses to make four short films instead - all with the same team and in just three days, over the Easter holiday. Only two of the shorts were filmed ("Pampa'migo" and Filme Politico (2013)), and only the second was finished and released. "Pampa'migo" was shelved since then. Ten years later, in November 2021, MAM (Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art) promoted a retrospective of Baiestorf's work. "Pampa'migo"'s raw, unedited scenes were shown without any editing, post-production, or soundtrack, thus recovering this rare lost film.
Neither the short film was completed, nor the documentary that Felipe M. Guerra filmed about the production. He maintains eight hours of behind-the-scenes footage on mini-DV tapes, which remain unedited and unreleased by the end of 2021.
Petter Baiestorf was disappointed with the result of filming because he was unable to shoot a few takes he needed to complete the film. So that the material wouldn't get lost, he added a few takes on his later movie Zombio 2: Chimarrão Zombies (2013), as if they were Cesar Coffin Souza's character nightmare.
One of the behind-the-scenes anecdotes from "Pampa'migo" that Felipe M. Guerra keeps telling is about the moment when Petter Baiestorf tried to convince his star Cesar Coffin Souza to film a difficult scene at five in the morning, after a whole night working without interruption. Baiestorf proposed: "Souza, now let's film a close of your erect penis." Tired and sleepy, Cesar replied: "Petter, at this hour only if a miracle happens!"
All actors and crew drank several doses of real cachaça (a strong alcoholic beverage produced in Brazil) during filming, which compromised the production. Director of photography Daniel Yencken passed out during the shooting and someone else had to take over the camera.