Arena
Palme D’Or - Short Film, Festival de Cannes
15′00″, 35mm
Director: João Salaviza
Director of Photography: Vasco Viana
Film Editor: João Salaviza
Music: Inês Clemente
Production:
Filmes do Tejo II
Maria João Mayer, François D’Artemare
+351 213 234 400/1
e-mail: mjmayer@filmesdotejo.pt / nunofelix@filmesdotejo.pt
web: www.filmesdotejo.pt
Synopsis:
Mauro is under house arrest.
Tattooing helps him while away the time.
Three local kids taunt him through his window.
Outside, the midday sun beats down.
João Salaviza
Short Note on Director
What interests me more than capturing the transformations a place might undergo, is the tension that builds in the moments where nothing changes. The lead in “Arena” is restricted by limitations of both space and time. By filming Mauro in home confinement I was faced with the situation of a man with nowhere to go. I followed through with that idea from the script to the editing. With the rule that no shot would prefigure the protagonist’s trajectory, nor suggest to him paths he simply could not see. That is right for someone who lives in a house with bars on the windows, and who secretly hopes that things will change by themselves.
November 23rd to December 1st, 2009
FIKE 2009 - 8th Évora International Short Film Festival
Páteo do Salema, n.º 7 - A
7000 - 818 Évora
PORTUGAL
Tel./Fax: +351 266 703137
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