by Miguel Gomes
The Christmas tree, the Nativity scene moss, the dog, the adults diner table, the children diner table, the baby Jesus, the turkey, the wrapping paper, the vynil records, the Presidents speech, the tricycle, the slapper uncle, the sweets, the overcoats over the bed, the cucoos clock, the pendulum clock, the subbuteo soccer game, the playmobile toys, the grandfathers puppet, the fake lake made of mirror, playing at the darkroom and getting asthma.
All together, a long long time ago, in a distant galaxy...
Ficha Técnica / Credits
Cast
Alberto Seixas Santos, Pedro Caldas, Manuel Mozos, Mariana Ricardo, João
Nicolau...
Director Miguel Gomes
Producers João Figueiras / Sandro Aguilar
Director of Photography Rui Poças
Sound Luis Botelho
Editor Manuel Mozos
Produced by
O Som e a Fúria
When I had eleven years and looked at
the great Nativity scene in
the house of my grandparents, at Christmas, I imagined that
I could give movement to the figures and resize their scale to mine.
In this film I made the same
thing with the memory that I
have of the house, of the people and of the rituals that I saw
around the Nativity scene. Inventory of Christmas is intended as a
miniaturized memories album, a possible synthesis between documentary and animation, one
melodic fantasy as in
Walt Disneys film.
In
childhood
all the associations are allowed, one lives without
knowing a happy time of anarchy. The cinematographic editing is a
magical tool to return to that time, to destroy the logical circuits
established in the adult age and to rescue for some minutes the lost
freedom.
Miguel Gomes
by Pedro Caldas
Early morning and everybody leaves home to work. Jeremias, the gardner, hears the telephone ringing in the house. The front neighbour has a message. Conceição, the maid, called : she won't be able to come today, Jeremias has to make lunch for Boris. Water falls from the window. The washing machine is not working properly.
Boris arrives from school. Jeremias doesn't have the key.
Credits
Cast
, Jeremias, André Soares, Lucinda Loureiro, Baltazar
Director Pedro
Caldas
Producers Carmen Castello Branco
Director of Photography Rui Poças
Sound Raquel Jacinto, Dominique Gaborieau
Editor Manuel Mozos
Produced by Luz
e Sombra
Off Beat
by João Figueiras
Best Original Soundtrack Prize - Premier Plans D'Angers Film Festival, France.
Leonor and Pedro have moved house. Unpacking takes longer than usual as each one works at their own pace regardless the other.
Credits
Cast
Leonor Keil, Pedro
Director João Figueiras
Producers João Figueiras / Sandro Aguilar
Director of Photography Rui Poças
Sound Pedro Caldas
Editor Sandro Aguilar
Produced by
O Som e a Fúria
12 min. Color 35mm
Meanwhile
by Miguel Gomes
Cinematography Prize - Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde 1999 - Portugal
Direction Prize - Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde 1999 - Portugal
Best Short Film - Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Stª Maria da Feira 1999 - Portugal
City of Oberhausen Main Prize - 46 Festival Internacional Oberhausen 2000 - Germany
About ENTRETANTO "You use the word entretanto, ‘meanwhile’, when you want to suspend an action so you can depart to something else. With this film I tried to fix this moment of transit - of time and action. And also of adolescence. The idea was born in the clouds, during a flight, while I was looking at the white carpet and listening to Doris Day singing Que Sera, Sera. Is it possible to challenge the loss of gravity and keep a film up above?, I asked myself. This story of a love triangle came as a situation of conflict to challenge that suspended lightness.
Like in the rest of Portuguese cinema, this is another story of impotence. The two boys and the girl can't consummate - sexually, emotionally - their relationship. The difference is that the characters and their psychology are dissolved in an experience of perception: the clouds are the reality of the film, Meanwhile is the gap that suspends them.
That's why Entretanto/Meanwhile is a film without climax, an experience of slow horizontally, spellbounded by signs of fantasy (red papers falling from the sky, artificial islands with palm trees). Instead of portrait of a generation, I searched for the timeless feeling of adolescence.
The musical was a happy formula cinema founded to go against reality, to transcend it. Entretanto/Meanwhile is a musical but a paralysed one, because you are no longer innocent to make Singing in the Rain or The Wizard of OZ. But even with that sense of loss, in "Entretanto" there is music in the clouds and impotence on Earth. Meanwhile..."
Miguel Gomes, in Forum Lisboa catálog
Photos : Niza Falcão
MEANWHILE
25´, 35mm, color
Produced in 1999
Parents and teachers are
gone.
Meanwhile, a girl and two boys became a love trio. Rui, Nuno and Rita cross
three different spaces and time in a way to get alone. A rugby match, a
swimming-pool-party, the beach. An unstable balance - the trio is to close to a
triangle.
Meanwhile it’s the time of spellbound. Of gestures, communication, language.
Their impotence comes from an impossibility for structure feelings or a language
of understanding. Rui loves Rita, Nuno or just the fun of it? Nuno loves Rita
and depends on Rui? Rita is the passive leader of the game. Does she love anyone?
Credits
Cast
Mariana Ricardo, André Delphim, Nuno Oliveira
Director Miguel Gomes
Producers João Figueiras / Sandro Aguilar
Director of Photography Rui Poças
Sound Pedro Caldas
Sound Mixer Nuno Carvalho
Editor Sandro Aguilar
Produced by O Som e a Fúria
R. da Sociedade Farmacêutica 40, 2º C – 1150 Lisboa
T. (351) 21 319 32 11 Email: [email protected]
Stage photography Niza Falcão
Festivals and Prizes
- Best Film and Best Cinematography - Festival de Vila do Conde 1999, (Portugal)
- Best Short Film - Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Stª Maria da Feira (Portugal)
Words Melt in Water
by Pedro Sena Nunes
A man is born again in the water. Maybe the sea has rejected him, inviting him to let himself go adrift, in this no man’s land. In a succession of events, his labyrinths of dreams and memories mix themselves until he is no longer able of distinguishing what he sees, from what he remembers, the world, from its representations.
Credits
Cast
Rui Nunes
Director Pedro Sena Nunes
Producers Pedro Sena Nunes, Caroline Barraud
Director of Photography Rui Poças
Sound Emidio Buchinho
Sound Mixer Emidio Buchinho
Editor João Pelica
Produced by Teatro Meridional
12 min. Color Betacam
by Fátima Ribeiro
"Word of Honour" is the story of a meeting between two men. One is in jail, the other is the guardian. One is a gipsy, the other is not. When an accident kills the child of one of them, each in his own way will change destiny into guilt.
Credits
Cast
Manuel Sá, Guilherme Mendonça, Artur Mendonça
Director Fátima Ribeiro
Producers Rosi Burguete
Director of Photography Tiago Beja
da Costa
Sound Quintino Bastos
Sound Mixer Branko Neskov
Editor Snejana Lalic
Produced by Produções Off
12 min. Color 35mm
by Carlos Assis
Credits
Cast
Ana Bustorff, Alberto Magassela, Zé Pedro, João Vaz
Director Carlos Assis
Producers Rosi Burguete
Director of Photography Daniel Del
Negro
Sound Quintino Bastos
Sound Mixer Branko Neskov
Editor Snejana Lalic
Produced by Produções Off
12 min. Color 35mm
The Flat
by Rui Poças , Luis Fonseca, Leonardo Simões, João Tuna, Tiago Beja da Costa, Vitor Nobre, Vitor Joaquim.
- Best Actor Prize - X Festival de Cine de Badajoz. Spain
A flat is up for rent. Mr Saramago receives teh various tenant candidates...
Credits
Cast
Director Rui Poças, Luis Fonseca, Vitor Joaquim, João
Tuna, Vitor Nobre, Leonardo Simões, Tiago Beja da Costa
Producers Rosi Burguete
Director of Photography Rui
Poças, João Tuna, Vitor Nobre, Leonardo Simões, Tiago Beja da Costa
Sound Vitor Joaquim
Sound Mixer Vitor Joaquim
Produced by Produções Off
12 min. Color 35mm
by Renato Falcão
- Finalist Film - Short Subject Film and Video
1995 Houston International Film ans Video Festival U S A
- Certificate Of Honorable Mention
1995 Columbus International Film and Video Festival U S A
20 min. Color 16mm
Production RF
by Luis Matos
Credits
Cast Catarina
Molder
Director Luis Matos
Producers João Paradela de Oliveira
Director of Photography Rui Poças
Sound António
Editor Luis Matos
Produced by ESTC
12 min. Color 16mm
