Letter from Paris
8’, digital video and Super 8mm, 2009
Video commissioned by the exhibition “Mulheres à beira de um ataque de nervos”, Arte Contempo Gallery, Lisbon.
// Screening at Macondo Circus Festival in the realm of a programme commissioned by Carolina Berger, Santa Maria, Brazil, 2010.
Synopsis: Video-letter inspired in the tale “El otro cielo” (“The other heaven”), by Julio Cortázar. “Letter from Paris” interlaces two times - one, the time of production of a failed documentary about a self-managed hotel; the other, a dilated present -, and two cities, Buenos Aires and Paris.
TECHNICAL DATA
Direction, screenplay and photography: Raquel Schefer
Production: Marisa Vinha / Exhibition “Mulheres à beira de um ataque de nervos” / Arte Contempo Gallery
Archive footage: Raquel Schefer, Carolina Dias Berger
Edition and sound design: Jorge Flores Velasco
Text and voice-over: Raquel Schefer