Movies: Sílvia das Fadas

2012
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day (2012)
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
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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....
2012
Picking Oranges (2012)
Picking Oranges
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"I have told them I would pick oranges in California after having seen The Grapes of Wrath at the Cinematheque."...
2019
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built (2019)
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
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A journey across unique places that challenge the world of their time, landmarks of the future built by revolutionary minds that can be described, each in their own way, as architectural utopias. The film is divided in five chapters which represent f...
2022
Her* Hands and His Forms (2022)
Her* Hands and His Forms
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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....
2019
Light, Blaze, Fulgor - Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing (2019)
Light, Blaze, Fulgor - Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing
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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 ...
2011
The Book of Natural Magic (2011)
The Book of Natural Magic
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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....
2022
Mud and Dawn (2022)
Mud and Dawn
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2013
Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013 (2013)
Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013
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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....
2008
The remake of the girls (2008)
The remake of the girls
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"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 ...