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Amélia & Duarte
Portugal, Germany
Director: Alice GUIMARãES & Mónica SANTOS
9 min. 2015,
with dialogue, Portuguese, English subtitled
Distributor: AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency
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Producer: Abi Feijó - CICLOPE FILMES / Thomas Meyer-Hermann - STUDIO FILM BILDER
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Screenplay: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães
Cinematographer: Manuel Pinto Barros
Animator: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães
Music: Pedro Marques
Editor: Martha Ewa Wojakowska
Cast:
Gilberto Oliveira, Sara Costa
In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.
Their relationship has the shape of an archive box and their contents illustrate the story about their breakup. We are guided through their separation as they try to divide, destroy and erase the memories of each other.
The film is made in pixilation and stop-motion and has a Technicolor feel of the 50s, portraying not only the surrealism of their actions, but also providing an ironic chromatic impression about the end of love.
Alice GUIMARãES & Mónica SANTOS
Alice Guimarães (27 de Agosto de 1980)
Alice Eça Guimarães studied digital arts, at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University. Since then, she has taken a special interest in animation, and through the years, she made small animated films for several brands such as Sonae, the Intermarché or the publisher Leya and also educational films, such as the awarded "A incrível História das Linhas de Torres Vedras".
- Um estranho ruído que passa” – 2001
Mónica Santos (21 de Dezembro de 1980)
Mónica Santos studied at the Royal College of Art, Communication art & design, London, where she had a scholarship given by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Versatile in both theoretical and practical views on cinema, Monica not only had presentations of her films in Portugal, United Kingdom, France and Italy, but currently she is doing a PhD in film studies.
In addition to working in real and animated moving images, she makes several illustrations for various periodicals such as Jornal de Notícias, Diário de Notícias, Jornal i, Expresso, Visão among others.
- “Um estranho ruído que passa” – Odisseia das imagens. Porto, Capital da Cultura, 2001. Prémio melhor animação.
- 2009-2010 - "“Bee’s” e “Am I attractive?” projeto de Susana Soares
- 2007 - "The story of the missing pink jacket"
- 2006 - "Your words"
- 2005 - "Hinoe-uma"
- 2005 - "Wall prelude"
AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency
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