Sílvia das Fadas
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Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
A journey across unique places that challenge the world of their time, landmarks of the future built by revolutionary minds that can be described, each in their own way, as architectural utopias. The film is divided in five chapters which represent five works.
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to Be Built
From the photographs taken by Russell Lee in rural America during the Great Depression, Sílvia das Fadas tries to recover the lives and relationships of the people photographed following the emotions they raise.
Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013
"I have told them I would pick oranges in California after having seen The Grapes of Wrath at the Cinematheque."
Picking Oranges
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Mud and Dawn
Do you believe in ghosts? An incantation becomes a refrain in this two-channel projection of sequences from an old film, recaptured on a Lomo lens. It’s all in her* hands shaping his form, her* labour questioning his authority.
Her* Hands and His Forms
An exploration of the properties of mirrors and other devices of illusions inspired by the encounter with an old edition of Giambattista della Porta’s Magiae Naturalis.
The Book of Natural Magic
The starting point for "Luz, Clarão, Fulgor" was a black and white photo from the Portuguese Alentejo region, which showed the ruins of the anarchist "Commune of Light" founded by António Gonçalves Correia in 1917 - who subsequently founded a second commune, “Comuna Clarão” (Blaze Commune), in 1926 in Albarraque, Sintra. From the remnants of these social utopias "Luz, Clarão, Fulgor" wants create a radical new movement; starting with the term "Fulgor" coined by the Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol, which describes the emergence of sudden changes of perspective as well as fundamentally new findings. Double projection. A work in metamorphosis.
Light, Blaze, Fulgor - Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing
"The remake of the girls", 2008, by Silvia das Fadas. Duration 10'40". DVD PAL -- 4:3. No sound / Black and white. Made as part of the workshop "Movimento Fixo" (Fixed Movement) at the Cinema/Image in Movement Department of Ar.Co (Centre for Art and Visual Communication).