Dário Pacheco

They dance in the water. They are like wandering clouds. But not for a homophobic spectator.

Thirty-five Portuguese dancers undress in front of the camera. They become the object of desire with a sensual provocative performance. Eclectic dance disciplines help this film to explore an exhibitionist view of the male nude. This is a statement about the current financial situation in Portugal and the lack of fundings to support artistic initiatives.

The mermaid is torn between two worlds, land and sea, its capabilities and its ambitions, it is lost between madness and despair. The stimulus for video dance was an audition, this is a moment when the performer sees his ambitions and abilities are valued, for some can mean happiness, but for others this may be a time of deep depression.

The arid and spacial environment is the setting for this sacrifice. A lost tribe in an outer planet, both physical and psychologically, they worship their God, blinded they will carry out their ritual, sacrifice the animal and incorporate it. In this metaphorical world time has infinite dimension, the acts are perpetuated and the cycles are repeated.

Whats the meaning of the number 2743? This number is meaningless, such as his holder. In a society organized by numbers, lose the individuality of each person, the number is only to identify and reflects nothing more than an existence doomed to mechanization. This fierce and constant invasion of identity, that the political regime exercises, will culminate in an awareness and in a revolt against the system.

A man who rips his own morals, where broken attitudes lead to a miserable glory. The risks of living ones limits.

A war with two barricades, a place where the macrocosm and the microcosm intersect, and the thin line between desire and rejection eventually fades.

Pedro is the base, the rupture and the passage. / Pedro is what lasts from the turned bodies, is the encounter. / Pedro is who’s longing, who desires or rejects. / Pedro is a politic body. / Pedro is the going and the arriving name. / Pedro is the defeat and the victory.

In a consumerist society, the desire for material goods often overcomes human love; this material love led us to a crisis. The word of the day is rejecting the real and embracing the virtual.