no. 23 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay + Author in residence

7 Portraits

7 Portraits

João Fonte Santa

VHS, 29' By João Fonte Santa, assisted by António Caramelo The video Sete Retratos was created for the exhibition Mundo de Aventuras, curated by José Alberto Ferreira, and features 7 video portraits, …

7 Portraits

B, Y, R

Visual Essay

B, Y, R

Henrique Biatto

Água Viva

Visual Essay

Água Viva

Lander Patrick, Gonçalo Marques, José Soares

Through the longest path

Visual Essay

Through the longest path

Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)

Working with mountains is easy

Article

Working with mountains is easy

Isadora Alves

Process Of Unframability

Sound Essay

Process Of Unframability

Frantz Loriot

Drowned, in the shame of light

Visual Essay

Drowned, in the shame of light

Isabela Abate & João Castro

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Visual Essay

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Pedro Paiva

Sightings

Visual Essay

Sightings

Francisco Novais

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

Visual Essay

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

António Olaio

Misfits

Visual Essay

Misfits

Fabrizio Matos

Out Of Here

Sound Essay

Out Of Here

Quatroconnection (Carla Santana)

Weiße Rose

Visual Essay + Author in residence

Weiße Rose

João Fonte Santa

it was just drained, drained

Sound Essay

it was just drained, drained

André Hencleeday

Lavagem

Visual Essay

Lavagem

João Jacinto

XXX

Visual Essay + Author in residence

XXX

João Fonte Santa

The hand with no specialty

Visual Essay

The hand with no specialty

Carolina Lino

Wrong Wrong n.23

Misfits

Visual Essay 17.11.2020

À LA FUITE #2 – LE MENEUR DE LUNE

Elisa Pône

In 2010 I directed three short movies grouped under the main title À LA FUITE (ON THE RUN). The project attempted to activate the guidelines of the drift. Fleeing figures, the characters express the drift through suspense, breakaway or abdication. In a society which does not distinguish very well reality from fiction or fallacy, the project summons the invisibles to where they did not seem to have room anymore.

The second opus is called after the book, Le meneur de lune (The moon leader), a self portrait of the autor Joë Bousquet.

The death and the moon leader.

Not dead, quite, in the sense that life would have stopped, but in the sense that the separation between life and death has lost all meaning for him. – Pierre Bayard about Joë Bousquet, Demain est écrit (Tomorrow’s written), 2005

Joë Bousquet was a french poet, born in the very late XIXth century. Wounded while being a soldier during the First World War, he was paralysed for the rest of his life. Constant pain made him a regular consumer of opium and pain killers. His poetry is haunted by his own experience of time-stretch between his encounter with death and the definitive one to come. His conception of time through lifespan is subject to reorganization and rewinded interpretations of facts.
My wound existed before me, I was born to embody-it.

The sequence is a drift. An old man crosses vast mountainous landscapes. His march is sturdy though he seems misoriented. He wears red boots, as Joë Bousquet wore when he was shot fighting during the war. My interest here was to explore the «mysterious detour in a stationary timelapse» as Pierre Bayard calls it. We shot the movie with a very long focus lens, like the ones used in stadiums to catch football players’ sweat drops. We were so far from the actor (often more than 400 meters) that it became impossible not to rely on his steps expertise. The bond came from the withdrawal. The sun was so bright that the soil’s humidity turned visible. The sound displays a few bow’s drones, as an attempt to curve back the ground.

The prison for poets

Bertrand Dezoteux

Visual Essay + Author in residence

THIRD NATURE #3