It was 40 (+) years ago! I Delphim Miranda

Um filme de João Pedro Marnoto

Conversations in the eyes with João Pedro Marnoto
CINEMA AND TALK

June 17th I Jardim das Gerações, Espinhal I 9:30 pm

Duration 120 min, all audiences
Hosted by Renato Barroso


Nine months of winter and three of hell - 94 min

(English subtitles)

“At the turn of the century and for little more than a decade, life led me to the lands of Douro and Trás-os-Montes in Northeast Portugal, where I ended up living and working. This triggered a process of introspection, questioning certainties increasingly more accommodated in this flat world. And so the city distanced beyond the horizon, and myself.”

With the title taken from a popular expression from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes in Portugal Northeast region, the work recounts a journey amongst the people rooted in the land that sustains its hunger, and devoted in the faith that points them towards the skies. Firstly with photography and extending into vídeo, the final result tries to be a visual metaphor on contemporaneity taken from a premise and perspective of the rural space: While road works and river damns gain ground over nature, Man persists on a fading and enduring coexistence with the environment, honouring a past creased by physical and spiritual effort and rigor, in contrast to a present where it seems to dominate a culture of both moral formatting and exaltation. A culture in a merciless confrontation with new social and economic realities, in a last instance, it´s a reflection on the human condition based on three vertices: the relationship with Land, Faith and Progress.


DIRECTION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND EDITION João Pedro Marnoto PRODUCTION MediaUtopia, João Pedro Marnoto, Eduarda Freitas, Douro Museum, Fernando Seara, João Tomé, Duarte Luis Carvalho, Maria João Centenário, Natália Fauvrelle MUSIC Gonçalo Pereira EDITING ASSISTANT Tiago Carvalho TRANSLATION AND SUBTITLES Pedro Filipe Ramos, Pedro Pereira, Pedro Braga Falcão

A sparkling water!... Please!...
PUPPET BUILDING WORKSHOP
Delphim Miranda

June 18th I Casa Família Oliveira Guimarães, Espinhal I 10:30 - 12:30 am
 

Approx. 120 min, from 6 years on


Workshop for the construction
of glove puppet heads
reusing plastic bottles
the green ones…


Jogos do Helder
GATHERING EVENT THROUGH GAMES
Helder Sucena

and Traditional Games proposed by the local community

June 18th I Casa Família Oliveira Guimarães, Espinhal I 3 - 6 pm
June 19th I Chanca I 3 - 6 pm

Approx. 120 min. Families, friends and acquaintances from 4 to 104 years old.


Helder's games are made of easy to care materials so that everyone feels comfortable using them. Inspired by traditional games from different regions, traditions or even scientific experiments. All games are great challenges and no one wants to be left behind, hence creating motivation to evolve. They cause social and generational bridges, guaranteeing  Joy, Smiles and Friends. If for some players it brings memories of other times, for others it provokes the desire to explore the unknown.


It was 40 (+) years ago!
PUPPET THEATRE
Delphim Miranda

June 18th I Casa Família Oliveira Guimarães (Eira), Espinhal I 6:30 pm
June 19th I at the edge of the village​, Chanca I 6:30 pm

Duration 50 min, all audiences


A show/life journey, evoking our more than forty years of activity, as a Puppet Artist and Storyteller with Puppets, Objects, Animated Shapes and Other Things. For it, we selected some stories and other events, which over the years we have been presenting and happening, a little everywhere.

It's just me, who does everything... Delphim Miranda

PS.: Delphim is with an m at the end