Where Is This Street? Or With No Before and After

Synopsis

From our living room window you can see a set of The Green Years (Paulo Rocha, 1963). This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze, we look back at the places of that film, which have become naturally different.
The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of the city of Lisbon, besieged by the Covid-19 pandemic that interrupted the shooting several times, are drawn out in front of our camera, in a kind of contemporary jazz improvisation from a score written in 1963.

Director Biography

João Pedro Rodrigues is an internationally renowned Portuguese filmmaker. When he was 8 years old, his father gave him a pair of binoculars and he decided to become an ornithologist. He always travels with his binoculars, to foray into nature and watch birds. João Rui Guerra da Mata was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. He spent his formative years in Macau, China. He has been working in cinema since 1995.