Sílvia das Fadas

Sílvia das Fadas

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Sílvia das Fadas
Sílvia das Fadas

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Mud and Dawn
Mud and Dawn
Editor
Mud and Dawn
Mud and Dawn
Director
Light, Blaze, Fulgor - Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing
Light, Blaze, Fulgor - Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing
Director
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.
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
Editor
“The House Is Yet To Be Built” is a travelogue to places which defy the surface of the world.
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
Cinematography
“The House Is Yet To Be Built” is a travelogue to places which defy the surface of the world.
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
Director
“The House Is Yet To Be Built” is a travelogue to places which defy the surface of the world.
Her* Hands and His Forms
Her* Hands and His Forms
Director
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.
Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013
Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013
Director
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.
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
Rapariga do Campo Grande
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.
Picking Oranges
Picking Oranges
Director
"I have told them I would pick oranges in California after having seen The Grapes of Wrath at the Cinematheque."
The Book of Natural Magic
The Book of Natural Magic
Director
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 remake of the girls
The remake of the girls
Director
"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).