Country: Portugal
Year: 2013
Duration: 164'
Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. The film is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics and globalization, on survival beyond all expectations, on dissent and absolute love. In a to-and-fro between the present and past memories, the film is also a tribute to friends departed and those who remain.
Biography
film director
Joaquim Pinto
Joaquim Pinto (Porto, Portugal, 1957) studied sound engineering and from 1979 to 1987 worked with filmmakers like de Oliveira, Tanner, and Monteiro. In 1987 he directed his first film, Uma Pedra no Bolso, followed by Onde Bate o Sol (1989), both of which were selected at the Berlinale. Das Tripas Coração was in the competition section at the Locarno Festival in 1992. His films were also part of the 1999 retrospective on Portuguese cinema from the 17th Torino Film Festival, where he presented also in 2013 E Agora? Lembra-me. Aside from making documentaries, he also started with Nuno Leonel a publishing company.
FILMOGRAFIA
Joaquim Pinto:
Uma Pedra no Bolso (1988), Onde Bate o Sol (1989), Das Tripas Coração (1992), Para cá dos Montes (cm, 1993).
Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel:
Surfavela (mm, doc., 1996), Entrevista com (interview with) Yvonne Bezerra de Mello (mm, 1998), Com Cuspe e com Jeito Se Bota no Cu do Sujeito (cm, doc., 1998), Rabo de Peixe (mm, doc., 2003), Segurança Maritima Passado, Presente e Futuro (cm, doc., 2006), Sol Menor (cm, 2007), Porca Miséria (cm, anim., 2007), E Agora? Lembra-me (2013), O Novo Testamento de Jesus Cristo Segundo João (2013), Fim de Citação (2013), Rabo de Peixe (doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“In times of crisis, HIV and HCV are no longer priority topics. Unlike recent documentaries with an approach from the outside, this project proposes a return to an ‘insider’ reflection for more general questions, in keeping with the works produced until the mid-1980s by authors who assumed their condition as HIV positive. Somehow I am privileged. I don’t depend on bosses, I don’t have to hide my status, I have access to medication. I am alive thanks to battles in which I was not the protagonist and which involved interests, governments, investigators and the pharmaceutical industry.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Joaquim Pinto
FOTOGRAFIA, SUONO, MONTAGGIO
Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel
INTERPRETI
Joaquim, Nuno, Jo, Deolinda, Cláudia, Nelson
PRODUTTORI
Joana Ferriera, Isabel Machado, Christine Reeh
PRODUZIONE
C.R.I.M., Presente
COPRODUZIONE
Ica - Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, RTP
Joaquim Pinto
FOTOGRAFIA, SUONO, MONTAGGIO
Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel
INTERPRETI
Joaquim, Nuno, Jo, Deolinda, Cláudia, Nelson
PRODUTTORI
Joana Ferriera, Isabel Machado, Christine Reeh
PRODUZIONE
C.R.I.M., Presente
COPRODUZIONE
Ica - Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, RTP
