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.
Also in this combined programme
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Cacheu
Originating as a performance at Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Filipa César’s film is a powerfully vivid illustration of how ‘history throws its empty bottles o -
Luís
A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet. -
Na escama do dragão
Liberal doses of pirates and swimming pools on a journalist and cameraman’s trip to Macau, which till 1999 was Europe’s last remaining colony in China
Film details
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
