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The Letter - a Video Letter
A Film by Ricardo Guerreiro / Kim Schädlich, Portugal, 2019
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Original Title
A Carta - uma vídeo carta
Country of Production
Portugal
Year of Production
2019
Running Time
2'10"
Language
Portuguese
Production
Production Company or Producer
PÁTIO
Contact Person
Ricardo Guerreiro
Distribution
Distribution Company
PÁTIO
Synopsys
The seemingly disconnected words around the city's streets become unified in the form of a video love letter.
After a year of filming street names and signs, we put together a video letter made only of these. It is as if the city speaks to itself.
Name
Ricardo Guerreiro / Kim Schädlich
Country
Portugal
Biography
PÁTIO is a collective of artists created in Lisbon in 2019. We develop cultural projects such as films, a film festival, zines and video related installations.
Ricardo studied cinema in Liverpool JMU and at the Farnham Film School UCA. He works as a camera assistant and films music videos and promotional videos. With PÁTIO collective, he makes films, archives and video art projects. He is one of the programmers and producers of Cinema no Estendal, an itinerant short film festival.
Kim Schädlich is an illustrator, designer, animator and artist. In her art, laughter and enjoyment are key. Irony, sarcasm, metaphor and comparison are tools used to play with the idiosyncrasies of life and, through them, reflect a thought, often times critical, about the world around her.
PÁTIO is a collective of visual artists and creative people based in Lisbon, Portugal. PÁTIO means courtyard in Portuguese.
In this courtyard we make films, drawings, we take photos and write texts, we put on events and gatherings.
We come from different cities and have different work experiences in cinema, design, video, illustration, tattooing, photography, sound design and art curation.
Filmography
Sardinhas em Petróleo - 2018
A Carta - 2019
Director's notes
Kim and Ricardo have worked together on couple of video arts projects, and look to develop the Carta project further, taking it to other cities, or further developing the creation of a video letter from Lisbon to itself.
This film is made as a result of many months creating an archive of street names and signs. There is many ways in which we can look at the world around us, and this one, through a small handy-cam with a very big zoom, gave us the possibility to perceive certain details that we would otherwise miss.
It was a pleasure creating this work, as it is like the city and its signs are co creators of the final letter. Our goal is to create such videos in other cities, with their own inherent narratives.
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