A Portuguese poet-painter wrestles death with nothing but light and a half-open door.
Fernando Lemo's world is fiercely stripped of any external logic, as Jorge de Sena once said. His artistic gesture blends with his own existence, where the poetic principle comes first. And with the light that insists to come through the half-closed door, the fear of life is vanquished in the battle fought with death. Thus, each word is born within another word and each image within another image. Out of how many knives is love made, the poet wonders?
Cinematography
Light through doorways—simple frames that ache with meaning.
Direction
Matos disappears completely; only Lemos and his ghosts remain.
Director
Luís Alves de Matos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fernando Lemos was a pivotal figure in Portuguese modernism who blurred poetry and visual art decades before 'multidisciplinary' became a buzzword.
Matos filmed during Lemos's final years, capturing creation as genuine lifeforce against decay—a rare documentary where the subject's mortality is literally the co-director.
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