17 minutes to make you fall in love with light, stone, and everything unsaid.
An experimental, visual poem that registers life and the architecture of Sintra (Portugal), captured by Paula Gaitán and featuring glimpses into her own photography art, rural/urban contrast, and memories with Glauber Rocha and family. Accompanied by the soundwork and music of L. Borgia Rossetti.
Cinematography
Sintra's geometry and decay captured with painterly precision.
Sound
Borgia Rossetti's score breathes between the images.
Director
Paula Gaitán
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Glauber Rocha, Gaitán's late husband, was the firebrand of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement; this film is elegy as exorcism.
Sintra's Romantic-era palaces and ruins serve as both character and corpse—Gaitán treats architecture as ancestral memory.
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