Joana Carvalho

Dans la ville millénaire de Guimarães, trois réalisateurs renommés, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra, Jean-Luc Godard, explorent la 3D et son influence sur notre perception du cinéma. Surimpression et superposition des images pour Peter Greenaway dans « Just in Time », interrogation ludique sur le nouveau spectateur de cinéma pour Edgar Pêra avec « Cinesapiens », esquisse d'une histoire du cinéma en 3D pour Jean-Luc Godard dans « Les Trois Désastres ».

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.

"C'est une fille !", dit la mère-poule. "Un garçon !", hurle le père-loup. Depuis toujours, Oscar, qui pousse dans le potager de ses parents, pense être un garçon. Il veut devenir un courageux parachutiste, comme son père. Un jour, il sort de la terre et découvre avec stupeur son corps féminin. Une longue période de doute et de discriminations commence alors...

Four inconsequential and bohemian friends want to write a television series. To do this, they create a game that will help them decide who will be the protagonist and who will also serve as their source of inspiration.