Country: Portugal
Year: 2010
Duration: 88'
no company Ernesto and Gaspar are doing time in a maximum security prison in northern Portugal. The inmates do various chores during the day: they take turns doing the laundry, washing and folding sheets and clothes, or sewing the seams of rudimentary shoes with strong needles. During their breaks in the courtyard they lift their faces to the sun, while the words they exchange with their fellow inmates reveal memories of their past and hopes for the future which awaits them once they are freed. “The filming process inside the prison was long and difficult. It took about thirteen months, with some breaks along the way. After some hesitations the movie started and found its own path through a permanent dialogue between documentary and fiction. Ernesto and Gaspar actively took part in the construction of the film’s history, sometimes staging some aspects of their own experiences. My admiration for them grew every day, as the film progressed.”
Biography
film director
João Trabulo
João Trabulo (Portugal, 1970) graduated in communications at the Universidade da Beira Interior in 1995, and then got a specialization in film restoration and conservation at the Cineteca Spagnola. In 1998 he studied directing at La fémis in Paris and made his first short, Vómito, followed in 1999 by the documentary Pureza/Impureza. In 2001 he worked on the production of two films by Pedro Costa, No Cuarto da Vanda and Où gît votre sourire enfui. That same year he made the documentary LH: Saber Ver, Demora, which participated at the International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal. In 2004 he founded Periferia Filmes, a production company which supports new Portuguese cinema, with which he has made numerous shorts and documentaries.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Gelo (mm, 1995), Pureza/Impureza (cm, doc., 1998), A Arte da Fuga (cm, 2000), Lh: Saber Ver, Demora (doc., 2001), Durante o Fim (doc., 2003), Sol Dormente (cm, 2004), Homens que São como Lugares Mal Situados (cm, doc., 2006), Unsaid (cm, 2006), Sombras - Um Filme Sonâmbulo (2007), Landscape (cm, doc., 2009), Sem Companhia (doc., 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer
João Trabulo
fotografia/cinematography
Miguel Carvalho
montaggio/film editing
Tomás Baltazar
musica/music
Tó Trips
suono/sound
Pedro Góis
interpreti/cast
Paulo Gaspar, Marcos Ernesto, Jose Cunha, João Larana
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Periferia Filmes
