It is better to admit it now: the original material is getting lost, its authors have been lost, the places have changed, people are not the same, everything has changed and what remains is the repetition of gestures. In a way, these private gestures captured on film, repeated over and over again by different families and at different times, performed in order to stage the act of the family itself, are also disappearing. Has this need also disappeared today with the easy access to images that we always carry in our pockets?

When we are in the middle of a story, it's not a story at all, just a riot, and it's only when we tell it to other people or to ourselves that it becomes a story. Families create their own narratives, stories are passed down from generation to generation, and so the past is still alive. Starting from the collection of 8mm and 16mm films from family archives in the Azores, this project is a study for a family film, not a personal family, but another family, an imaginary family that no longer exists.

Indagora, will be a work in progress in the form of a live film where Pedro Maia will work on the editing, sound and narrative of the film in real time. Presented via live streaming in this edition of the festival, this process aims to transform the traditional narrative structure of the family film into a representative record of a language that integrates contemporary visual culture, thus questioning the very "value" of image and memory.