Found footage meets queer longing in 18 minutes that'll wreck you quietly.
Películas is the name of a poetry book by Luís Miguel Nava, a homosexual poet, born in Viseu, who died in Brussels and whose magnificent poetic work remains widely unknown. Drawn from the filmmaker’s family super8 film archive, and excerpts from the film Un chant d'amour, by Jean Genet, the film builds a “body” marked by memories, by various skins, by Nava's films, by his poems and by its landscapes.
Direction
Resende weaves three archives into one breathing body.
Editing
Super8 decay meets Genet's forbidden touch—textured, tactile.
Sound
Barbosa's narration: a voice you want to keep.
Director
Tiago Resende
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nava died in 1995, largely unpublished; this film performs the posthumous recognition he never received in life.
Un Chant d'amour was Genet's only film, banned for decades—Resendee smuggles its eroticism into elegy.
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