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I have never been this close
DOC 234—34/2
17 min . 4:3 . Color
Stereo/5.1 . no dialogue
Francisca Dores
Producer
Diogo Pinto
Sound
Henrik Ferrara
Sound Mixing and Post-production
Ricardo M. Vieira
José Lobo
Color
Vasco Trabulo Bäuerle
Production
Escola das Artes - UCP
Co-production
Hyperion Collective
Artistic Tutors
Daniel Ribas
Ben Rivers
Poster Design
Maria Peixoto
| In a rural periphery in the midst of transformation, agricultural machines devastate the fields and the places are haunted by an eternal gloom. Out of the flames, the bells are reborn, invoking the presence of the community. |
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Through a sensorial documentary approach, Nunca estive tão perto aims to re-imagine a place and a waiting in transformation. Contemporary communities are illusions of centers of comfort and security, where the individual is replaced by the illusion of a sense of belonging to the world, to something bigger, to a global place that is instantly accessible regardless of time and space. The automated ringing of church bells is now a lament calling for collective waiting. In the few villages where we still find bellringers, the melodies demand the presence of the community's bodies. The experience of time has become increasingly private, and the ringing of the hours is masked by the noise of the changing landscape.
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