Can doubt linger as pain burns the flesh? As questions become paths, scars become dogmas, and endings fear beginnings. In a journey of self discovery Barbara searches for the acceptance of a traumatic past. An attempt at understanding the premises of narratives lived in the first person, but dissected now in the third. Like looking into a mirror imagining we are a stranger in the reflection. A fiery duel, between ourselves. White, black, sand, and fire. Fearless, yet hesitant in slow motion, pure, yet tainted by smoke, relentless, yet what felt like a lifetime bottled in a moment. A dichotomy apparently antagonistic, yet complete in truth, for memory lives in feeling and emotion more than in standard notions of time and space. Like a silence cutting through a scream.
Directed by Ruben Do Valle
Created by Ruben Do Valle & Barbara Bandeira
Written by - Francisco Mira Godinho & Barbara Bandeira
Produced by Neighbor
Executive Producers: Ruben Do Valle & Marta Dias Coelho
Production Manager: Marta Dias Coelho
DOP: Bernardo Infante
1st AC: Miguel Angelo & Fernando Tavares
2nd AC: João Porto
Gaffer: Daniel Nicolau
Editor: Ricardo Moura
Color Grade: Paulo Inês
Post Production & VFX: Gustavo Cunha
Sound Design and Mix : Antonio Miguel Santos
Stylist: Raquel Guerreiro
Wardrobe assistant: Afonso Albano
Make up Artist: Raquel Batalha
Hair Stylist: Carlos Cardoso
Stunts: Mad Stunts
Shot on 16mm Kodak Shoot film
Lab - Cinelabuk