Works in Progress
Isolatoes, a web project inspired by a quote in Chapter 27 of Moby Dick: "They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own. Yet now, federated along one keel..." (Hermann Melville) |
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| 9islands brings together a series of videos made between 2003 and 2008 using archival source material. The videos are impressions from an emigrant point of view involving nostalgia (saudade) for the lost landscape. (English and Portuguese) "For us, geography is history. Like mermaids, we have a double nature: we are flesh and stone. Our bones dive into the ocean." (Vitorino Nemésio) |
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| Red Carnation, a study of Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution coming soon. |  |