« Noite na Terra / Night on Earth »

  • in collaboration with Carla Cruz
  • public intervation, graffiti
  • video 4'10
  • camera by Frederico Lobo
  • Oporto, 2006

We chose the movie theater Águia d’Ouro as a paradigmatic example. Inactive for countless years, few have memory of its golden days. Many never got to know it before its decay or even the ruin that it is today. Thus, against the numbness induced by this city that rots more rapidly that it renovates itself, we present this short video that shows the announcing of a film. “Night on Earth”. For that is what happens each new day in Oporto. It grows dark. It becomes gloomy. It grows old...