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 01.11.2016

News of Desolation

Fernando José Pereira

Two parallel stories gradually taking place closer to each other until their merger into one, near the end of the film.

On the one hand, images of desolate landscapes that attempt to incorporate in its entirety the Benjaminian thought as expressed in his theses on history: in short, the essential question asked by the German author: what does remain after the storm of the ‘progress’? The desolate landscape, where nothing ‘grows’ besides a wire, a few sheets of paper, plastic pipes or abandoned machines.
On the other hand, the real and harsh words of a Greek citizen, a young visual artist who tells us, eye to eye, what desolation feels now (in 2013, the year of the film). The fear of almost everything: of the Other, of the streets, and so on. The extremely low expectations for the future. The frustration and, above all, the strong need of leaving everything behind and leave the country.

A black-and-white film with the intense and real sounds of the protests in Athens present. The sound element has a crucial importance as it works as a kind of glue in the binding of the two narratives and their transformation into one.

This film is my ‘reply’ to an e-mail sent from Greece by a friend – the girl in the pictures. The text of the e-mail has immediately embodied itself in my head like a poem, a tragic poem – it is the text of the film – and yet it's much more than that: it is a very real image of the reality that Greece lived those days. For all this to be past is the profound wish of this film made in 2013.

The Funambulist

Lettres à l'Europe

Jérémy Pajeanc, André Lamas Leite e Pedro Góis