Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica

We are in the year 2043 and our existence is immersed in a sea of apathy. A reflexion about our evolution as humans.

A story about generation Y, the era of individualistic and extremely competitive people, who believe their meant to be exceptional. A generation where the unrealistic expectations rarely match reality. The story revolves around a young adult who is subject to the same circumstances and above all else wishes to be recognized by truly memorable achievements. Mota says he has been touched by god and is going to write a book about everything. In the limbo between the real world and Mota’s conscience the journey begins. The narrative oscillates between action and inertia, writing and procrastinating. The book of everything assumes an identity crisis. Mota, as other of his age, is subject to social pressure of making it big. He becomes so desperate at the reality of his life that builds a parallel one. It’s a movie about the unachievable realization of the individual.

In an empty house, we see the memories of a home, from those who once lived and filled it with joy and love.

Teresa is a surfer who lives a full love life until the day when, using an app that allows surfers to analyze the state of the sea in real-time, she realizes that something strange is happening on the beach. Intrigued by what she sees in the images, Teresa is faced with a decision that has been on hold for too long. At the same time, she realizes how she might not accept for others what she claims for herself…

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

On April 1st, 2022, my grandfather passed away and i felt lost. I think my path changed when, some days after he passed away, i was offered a small VHS camera. "Moving Memories" is a visual journey that makes the viewer reflect on our momentary presence on earth and questions the nature of memory. Throughout this journey, we get to the conclusion that memories are more than just static photographs in our minds, they're alive and in constant movement, changing while we evolve as individuals. These memories have influence and help us to move on.

A game of Paintball emerges as a vehicle for the exploration of masculinity and power dynamics among a group of boys.

A woman struggling with the constant pressure to change her lifestyle.

This film is about entering the flow of the scream and seeing its color.

Alice, a woman with a fear of solitude and an exausting desire to change her life, develops an obsession for the doctor that accompanied her recovery after waking up from a comma. Between an over protective boyfriend and an undependable doctor, Alice faces a choice and the possibility of ending up alone.

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.

To produce speech, a set of mechanisms must be brought together. What is the normal articulation for speech? How to produce the sounds that make it up in the correct way? A physiological analysis of the aspects of speech shows us how: the jaw must move in a certain way; the air must be expelled from the lungs in another. Based on the concepts stated in the film "Normal Speech Articulation" (1965), produced by the University of Iowa (USA), we intend to reflect on the way women have been represented, and consequently educated, over the years, both in film and in the media. Largely composed of archival footage, this film intends to make evident, through a montage inspired by Structuralist movements, the violence of this education.

Short animation film about the fear of singing in public

Rafa senses an eminent farewell, remembering bygone places, encounters and fleeting connections.

Vasco is exposed to his brother's extremist ideals, expressed through the National Socialist Black Metal genre. However, Vasco doesn't identify with the movement's nature and hides from his brother an essential aspect of his life, in order to avoid a fraternal break, while tracing the path of self-acceptance.

A medieval tale about a soldier and his responsibility in announcing the tragic death of the King in combat.

Everyone remembers well that night of the burning pigs. José was born the morning after, and some say that he came from that fire, and became man out of the pigs. When his mother dies, José leaves the village for the first time, in search of something more.

A November day in Porto, in a square where skaters jump up a flight of stairs. Three characters share a moment, which is divided into three subjective shots and which, without dialogue, are intended to characterize them emotionally. The idea of shared love is called into question.

It dawns. A group of hunters is reunited, suspended in time and space. Prey and predator.

“Time is that which ends. Time is limited time experienced by a sentient creature. Sentient of time, that is – making adjustments to time in terms of what Korzybski calls neuro-muscular intention behaviour with respect to the environment as a whole..." - William S. Burroughs. As a time indexing device, it's capabilities are limited to a finite quantity of space over which it pairs images to time codes. However, a strange element disrupts the circuit, a ghost, a Thing, an imperfect double which overcodes the space that the device travels. So, a time accident specific to this technical apparatus is created where two different temporalities compete for the same space, the electronic limbo where a temporal chimera coalesces.