Producer
An actress asks a sex worker to help her create a film in which they share secrets of their professions, and they become both filmmakers and characters.
Executive Producer
Just after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war. They were often welcomed in by well-to-do families with domestic staff living in sunny villas, and for most of the children this was a holiday in paradise. The contrast with their living conditions at home, and the huge difference between the lives of rich and poor in Portugal in this period, made a deep impression on the young Austrians.
Production Director
Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928. His aim was to break the British rubber monopoly and produce this material in Brazil for his car production in the United States. Today, the remains of construction testify to the scale of the failure of this neocolonialist endeavor that lasted less than a decade. Nowadays, Fordlandia is a space suspended between times, between the 20th and 21st centuries, between utopia and dystopia, between visibility and invisibility: architectural buildings of steel, glass, and masonry still remain in use while traces of indigenous life left no marks on the ground.
Himself
Loves are found and lost. Families disappear and start. Houses, denouements, solitude, friendship. All that we keep, and all that we leave behind. Shot on Super 8 film between 2010 and 2018 in Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Guinea-Bissau, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, ANYTHING AND ALL records the author’s memories as the days return to normal and emotions start to weaken, exploring the little ceremonies and other manias we indulge to remember our story.
Editorial Consultant
Tudo pode acontecer quando se está numa aldeia que fica entre a linha do comboio que nos leva à cidade de Lagos e a praia. Meia-Praia é nome e berço de uns “índios” que espontâneamente foram construindo as suas palhotas de refúgio para sobreviverem ao sonho dourado que Lagos não conseguiu cumprir. Com o 25 Abril foi desenvolvido um plano arquitectónico, intitulado s.a.a.l.. Pretendia.se então requalificar urbanisticamente o conjunto de palhotas, transformando-as em casas construídas pelos próprios habitantes orientados por arquitectos e técnicos especializados.
