Zwazo

  • 17'
  • Portugal
  • 2012
Gabriel Abrantes’s inventive and sun-soaked transposition of Aristophanes’s 414 BC play The Birds to a mournful, present-day Haiti. Echoing the dramatic structure of a typical Aristophanes play, Abrantes furthers his unique brand of pageantry and textual conflation, enlivened by the beauty of his 16mm images.

  • 17'
  • Portugal
  • 2012
Director
Gabriel Abrantes
Country of production
Portugal
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
17'
Medium
DCP
International title
Birds
Languages
Greek, Haitian Creole
Producer
Natxo Checa
Production Company
A Mutual Respect Productions
Sales
A Mutual Respect Productions
Screenplay
Gabriel Abrantes
Cinematography
Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa
Editor
Gabriel Abrantes
Production Design
Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa
Sound Design
Gabriel Abrantes
Director
Gabriel Abrantes
Country of production
Portugal
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
17'
Medium
DCP
International title
Birds
Languages
Greek, Haitian Creole
Producer
Natxo Checa
Production Company
A Mutual Respect Productions
Sales
A Mutual Respect Productions
Screenplay
Gabriel Abrantes
Cinematography
Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa
Editor
Gabriel Abrantes
Production Design
Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa
Sound Design
Gabriel Abrantes