Literalité: A Breakdown in Five Parts

Drumming Beat of the Stars

November 2012 •Portuguese

An essay around the streets, as an homage to Fernando Pessoa

LIMINAL

April 2021 •English

A troubled man returns home for the last time.

2bhk

January 2024 •Hindi

2 flatmates unfold the layers of their relationship on a random Sunday afternoon after they encounter a power cut.

De Quanta Terra Precisa Um Homem?

Invalid date •Portuguese

Aconite

February 2024 •English

In the sprawling, desolate expanse of a grand house, resides a solitary girl. Haunted by memories and the weight of isolation, she spends her days wandering through its empty rooms—a labyrinth of forgotten corners and fading grandeur.

Dernière St-Valentin

February 2024 •French

Michelle

December 2022 •

Chelicera

February 2023 •English

A neurodivergent man is stuck in the web of an abusive relationship, unable to free himself from his lovers grasp.

Negativ

February 2023 •Russian

A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.

Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else

February 2024 •English

A randomly chosen name and random scenes shot in two different hours. Monologue (story) adapted later according to name and scenes with "Funkadelic - Maggot Brain".

he said, she said

January 2023 •English

A short artist film that explores femininity and sexuality. SHE journeys through her life and mind in order to be reborn, and reclaim all that men have taken from her.

De Civitate Rei

January 1993 •Italian

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

Fiorenzo

January 1995 •Italian

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.

Vietnam Story

Invalid date •English

A cinematic impression of Vietnam, told through the eyes of Vietnamese immigrants.

Lost Footage

March 2022 •English

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.

Go Forget Me

December 2020 •English

Robert Estragon has worked his way to the top of the food chain as a doctor in the city, but it has driven him to self-imposed delusion. Here, we listen as he sits and projects himself onto the mad world he observes. It all comes to a head when Willie Krapp, a young colleague, invades this world, hoping to teach Robert that it was wrong to let his own daughter die in the operating room.

Pasamontaña Quemado

November 2021 •Spanish

Meat Party

June 2020 •English

A man and women have dinner, a steak, and his woman ( second steak) also does.

Les corps aqueux

April 2023 •French

An experimental film exploring gender identities excluded from the binary system. By constructing a theatrical space including fabricated sets and props, invented radio interviews, vignettes of archival footage, as well as overlays, the film explores the relationship between body and self. In this in-between space, uncertainty can finally have free rein.

Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes

January 1971 •Portuguese

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.