Príncipe displays a forgotten generation.
A city on the edge of an international
rehabilitation where João walks around
a fervent desire to leave.
Portugal / 2019 / colour / 10’30’’ / 2K
Language: Portuguese / subtitles: English
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Príncipe displays a forgotten generation. A city on the edge of an international rehabilitation.
In the film, a principle of monotony surrounds the main character, João, who travels around a immobilized romance. The desire to “escape” fills the collective subconscious of his generation; in context, the relationships he establishes become fragments of a volatile way of thinking.
Between exploratory spaces, the character confronts his most illicit movements, in a region bounded by invisible borders. On the threshold of its objectives, the geography of the space, in analogy to the characters, is in constant change; uncompromised from the virtuous extension of definite time: time as a matter of abstract and uncompromising sensations.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
The short film comes as a farewell letter to an inevitable separation. The youthful movement of a country without a decisive future proves a collective thought of constant euphoria. The personality added to the narrative fable lives within the subjects associated with the city and the respective geographic education that has accompanied me since I was born. This one, which saw me grow within its spatial limits, invokes, by innocuous characteristics, the constant reference to the dream.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Esta, que me viu crescer dentro dos seus limites espaciais, invoca, por características inócuas, a constante referência ao sonho. Um sonho de fuga, para um local que se associa à subjetividade emocional de uma geração inquieta.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
In protest, the indefinition of time, affiliated with desire, accompanies all the characters. This fragment of visual matter, like the other features of the argument, can be interpreted on multiple issues posed in the aforementioned conflict. The main figure who, in contention, evades the idea of permanence, finds in the heart of urban space a focus of immobilized love. The constant feeling of rebellion that accompanies the sexual relationship of the two male characters is observation material about this fleeting thought.
DIRECTOR'S BIO-FILMOGRAPHY
Born in Porto, Portugal in 1996, João Monteiro studied audiovisual arts in highschool. In 2014 he moved to London in order to attend the Foundation Film course at the London College of Comunication.
The following year he returned to Portugal to enroll at Escola Superior Artísticado Porto, where he worked as the director of two award-winning short-films, No Fim do Mar (2018), nominated for “Best School Film” at Sophia Awards 2019, and José (2019), winner of the Best Film Award at MIFEC (Mostra Internacional de Filmes de Escolas de Cinema).He has also participated in several film festivals in Portugal as well as abroad, including FANTASPORTO (Portugal), Curtas de Vila do Conde International Film Festival (Portugal), FEST: New Directors, New Films (Portugal), Salón Internacional de la Luz (Bogotá, Colombia), IBAFF - Festival Internacional de Murcia (Spain) and and Oaxaca FilmFest (Mexico).
Following up on collaborations with FITEI - International Festival of Iberian Expression and video/film production company PIXBEE, he now releases his third short-film, also financed by ICA - Instituto do Cinema e o Audiovisual, Príncipe.
CAST & CREW Written and Directed by |
João Monteiro |
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