Pedro Florêncio

A cinematographic adaptation of the piece Poema, by the Portuguese thinker Tomás Maia. An audiovisual poiesis, “presented in a double movement, of flux and reflux, descending and ascending, in a veiled revisitation of the myth of Orpheus—but removing from the myth the male figure (and, therefore, any heroism) and transforming Eurydice into poetry itself, which, unlike the dead, rises above the underground” (from the piece’s original synopsis). A short movie about death, life and art.

Six adventurers go on a quest for a mystical cemetery. After disturbing the dead, they trigger an ancient curse that will destroy the entire world.

A film about faces, gestures and procedures during a day shift at the 112 medical emergency centre hotline, at INEM’s headquarters in Lisbon.

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the meanest, most horrible monster ever.

Leni and Mandemba are two fishermen from the island of Bubaque, in Guinea-Bissau. The filmmaker follows them for a whole day as they prepare their tools, gather bait and go fishing. A filmmaker and two fishermen who shape and form a landscape and a choreography of gestures on an afternoon of fishing.

"For now we see through a screen, darkly…”

My friend made a painting from a photograph about a manifestation against the economic crisis and I made a film from that painting. Between these two objects lies a path, which began in a casual photograph and ended in a poorly-lit garage.

"Na Trafaria" is an alternative mapping methodology that uses cinema as a cartographic tool. A heterogeneous and fragmented territory, Trafaria is made up of several organisms, here placed in relationship by the cinematic mechanism. This version, exclusively assembled for screening at Doclisboa 2024, traces just one possible route (among many others) through the place.

A study of gestures, light and sounds from within a house in Lisbon, during a regular spring afternoon.