ORANGE IN IRAN
Tehran is encircled by a mountain range. The lower areas are densely populated, resembling the bottom of a vast cauldron, where the bustle and fervor typical of large capital cities boil continuously. That autumn, snow began to accumulate on concrete and asphalt. Squares, streets, avenues, and parks lost the green carpet of low vegetation. It’s […]
WOMEN OF THE WELLS – AJMER
Fountains are places of gathering. Of everyday life. And of life itself as well. Places where women meet, talk, laugh, reflect, or rest—while they linger or wait to fill their pots with water, which they then carry on their heads to their homes or elsewhere. A familiar back-and-forth, repeated day after day. So it was […]
THE STORMS AND THE RETURN OF THE BANDIT
Five depressions crossed the continent in less than a month. A full handful. In January came Ingrid, Joseph, and the dreadful Kristin. In February it was the turn of storms Leonardo and Marta. Between January 22 and February 8, the rain never stopped. A true atmospheric river originating in the Caribbean crossed the Atlantic only […]
ROMANCE WITH SPINES
In the early hours of this morning, we were not only saying goodbye to a terrible month of storms. This time, the full moon was visible above the horizon, and those in the know woke up to observe an unusual alignment of several planets. It was the first night I sensed the still timid scent […]
DIGITAL PRINT IN TERRAS DE COURA
Inaugurated on August 10, 2015, the exhibition Digital Imprint in Terras de Coura was promoted by the Municipality of Paredes de Coura and is on display at the local Regional Museum. It offers a perspective on the territory, landscape, and life in Paredes de Coura over recent decades. THE EXHIBITION The films we made, the […]
III – THE SHIP FROM AMERICA ARRIVES IN FOGO
ON THE ROUTE OF THE OLD WHALERS It is in the United States that a large part of the diaspora from the islands of Fogo and Brava is found, unlike the rest of the Cape Verde archipelago, whose main migratory destination is Europe. This is due to the whaling migration that took generations from these […]
WHAT TO DO WITH KNOWLEDGE?
If I could pass on the knowledge that lives “here” and place it, just like that, “there,” I would do it now. If only it were possible, way back then, while learning, after all… It was in a workshop in São Brás, in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, on the island of São Miguel in […]
SALOIA THIS SINTRA MOUNTAIN
This landscape bears similarities to the Alentejo plain. But the distant mountain range is unmistakable. In the middle of August, we witness here, in just two brief minutes that condense two full hours, the formation of clouds that is so characteristic of Sintra. (Please select HD – 1080p – in the video settings) As the […]
JOSÉ DA PAZ
A few kilometres from Marvão, in Prado, José da Paz and his wife, Senhorinha, were my neighbours for several years. They lived in a nearby village, Escusa, and came every day to the house right next to the one where I lived. When I got up and stepped outside, they were already there. And it […]
REBELADOS AT THE END OF TIME
Filmed on the island of Santiago, in Cape Verde, the documentary follows the daily lives and expectations of three Rebelados who await the end of the world, foretold by the elders to occur at the turn of the millennium. Over the course of one agricultural cycle, the camera follows the day-to-day life of three characters—a […]
SUCCEEDING IN LIFE
Nuno Ribeiro loves what he does. He devotes himself, body and soul, to the craft that brought him back to life, to his children, and to his family. The focused and serious look he wears while working leaves no room for doubt. And the satisfaction he shows when handing over a pair of repaired shoes […]
THE PROMISE
Bernardo Santareno evokes a gray and misty era. In the second half of the 20th century, Portugal was immersed in the morals and good manners of a Estado Novo regime with a musty smell. It was a time of fear, censorship, and oppression, manifested in a forced suffocation ordered by a fascist regime that would […]