“A Dança do Cipreste” (The Cypress Dance) springs from our interest in the immanent transformations of the body driven by dreams and desire, love and death, in their lucid and ghostly variants. Embracing the influence of imagination in the encounter with nature, it brings to light relationships of continuity and discontinuity with other beings and elements, as it follows the movements of a family circle. Mariana appears to us in her solitude, a woman and painter, at the height of her search for pleasure and desire, committed to artistic representations and her family life. Witty figures of strangeness, eroticism and violence emerge. Mariana, Henrique, Artur and Rafael, together or individually, find themselves in mutual projections and symbiotic relationships, in the days spent outdoors and in imaginary places. A sensorial portrait, which combines simple relationships of contact and affection, exploratory moments in nature and creations of the spirit.
A Dança do Cipreste (2020)
HDV, 3:2, Colour, Sound, 37′, Portugal
Direction/ Cinematography/ Camera/ Sound/ Editing/ Production
Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela
With
Mariana Barrote, Henrique Ponte da Luz, Artur da Luz and Rafael da Luz
Original Compositions/ Music
Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang
Drawing/ Painting/ Costumes
Mariana Barrote
Additional Sound Design/ Mastering
Luís Henrique Silveira
Support
Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fundo de Apoio ao Cinema, Fundação GDA, OOPSA
Distribution
Portugal Film
(Drawing by Mariana Barrote, poster design Pedro Nora)
Screenings / Festivals:
2021 – Entre Olhares – Mostra de Cinema Português, Cineclube do Barreiro (November)
2021 – Frontera Sur Film Festival , Chile (July)
2020 – Porto/Post/Doc (November)
2020 – Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português, Coimbra (November)
2020 – Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (November)
2020 – Festival dei Popoli, Firenze (November)
2020 – Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal do Porto (October)
2020 – Athens Avant-Garde Film festival (October)
2020 – Curtas Vila do Conde – Internacional Film Festival (October)
2020 – Underdox – Interationales filmfestival – document und experiment, München (October)
2020 – Lima Alterna festival internacional de cine ( September – October)
2020 – Berwick film & media arts festival’s new cinema (September – October)
2020 – IndieLisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema (August)
2020 – Festival Phare – Arles (July)
2020 – FID Marseille Internacional film festival (July)
Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela 