RUINS

Synopsis

Fragments of spaces and times, remains of eras and places inhabited only by memories and ghosts. Traces of things which time, the elements, nature and human action have modified and still do. With the passing of time everything that was cease to exist, eventually becoming into something else.

Places that no longer make sense, that are no longer necessary, that are no longer fashionable. Forgotten, obsolete, stark, empty places.

It isn’t necessary to explain why they were created or why they existed, nor the reasons why they were abandonned or transformed. We’re only promoting an idea, somehow poetic, about something that was and still is part of this country’s (hi)story.

Director's Bio-filmography

Manuel Mozos was born in Lisbon in 1959. Studied film at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and majored in Editing, which is his main activity. Manuel Mozos works at the National Moving Images Archive Department

RUINS [2009] • 4 COPAS [2008] • ALDINA DUARTE: PRINCESA PROMETIDA [2008] • XAVIER [1991 – 2002] • ...QUANDO TROVEJA [1998] • CINEMA PORTUGUÊS…? DIÁLOGOS COM JOÃO BENARD DA COSTA ([1996] • LISBOA NO CINEMA – UM PONTO DE VISTA [1994] • UM PASSO, OUTRO PASSO E DEPOIS... [1990]

Festivals and Awards

Indielisboa’09 – National Competition [Portugal, 2009]: TOBIS Award for Best Portuguese Feature Film
FIDMARSEILLE – 20th International Documentary Film Festival of Marseille – International Competition [France, 2009]: Georges de Beauregard International prize

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RUINS at Viennale 2009

The prologue is unambiguous: It is the spectacle of a high-rise block being blown up. Then there is a crowd in a cemetery, gathered around the grave of a certain Henriqueta Souza, a revered woman whose tumultuous biography is retold for us and who, as we are to learn, has kept the head of her dead lover as a relic.

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Crew

written and directed by Manuel Mozos • image Luís Miguel Correia, João Nicolau, Sandro Aguilar • sound António Pedro Figueiredo, Armanda Carvalho • editing Telmo Churro • sound editing & mix Elsa Ferreira • music anakedlucnh • research Dulce Mendes, Ana Gomes • production João Gusmão, Ana Gomes, Cristina Almeida • producers Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar

Betacam Digital | 16:9 | 60’ | Cor

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