cinema calheta
‘Heimamynda Samsteypan’, home movie collective + ‘The Trail of a Tale’ and ‘Carta de um Vulcão para o Mundo’, Gonçalo Tocha+info
11 nov ➔ 21h00
Heimamynda samsteypan, home movie collective, 30´
The home movie collective is dedicated to the collection and presentation of home movies from Iceland. These personal images carry an opportunity to look at a specific place at a specific time and reveal how people choose to document their own lives. The collective looks for ways to find new public spaces for these personal images, where they can be shared in a new context, discussed and used as instigators for conversations about a collective past.
The Trail of a Tale, Gonçalo Tocha, 4'
Short film made at the invitation of the European program Imagine 2020 | Arts & Climate Change, about climate change and inspired by the report The Great Transition from the New Economics Foundation. Artistic direction in collaboration with the Portuguese artist Miguel Januário, better known as ±MAISMENOS±. Winner of best film at the Action4Climate International Awards.
Carta de um vulcão para o Mundo, Gonçalo Tocha, 8´47''
Sixty-five years after its eruption, a volcano decides to write a letter to the world. In it, it remembers the course of its life and seems to seek a kind of reconciliation. "I don't know if I am crude - perhaps a little unreasonable, forgive me. I must begin by apologizing for having frightened you, and changed the course of your lives? Should any being apologize for being who they are? Even the subtle butterfly has an explosive birth". Based on the original voice and text by writer Judite Canha Fernandes, and overlapping archival images of the eruption of the Capelinhos Volcano with recent ones - the waves on its side, the north wind on its sands, the multiple visits and the gaze from the local inhabitants who saw it born, Carta de um vulcão para o Mundo is a unique video-letter of a volcano in love with the people around it.