DAS DORES

JULIA GORMAN     VICENTE COELHO

UM FILME DE   GABRIEL TUPINAMBÁ

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I HAD TRIED before to convey specific plot or conceptual elements through the use of repetitions in my short films (Study On Repetition being an obvious example of it.), but in DAS DORES this comes forth in a different way. The concept of repeating the exact same 9 min sequence three times created a series of obstacles for the production in both a practical and a creative sense, but it also opened up doors to thoughts I couldn't have come across in any other way.
It was only by allowing the image to be literally repeated that I could see, realised on the screen, something that I already wanted to believe: How the sound and the music, in all their unfathomable power, distort and conduct the images. This was for me the greatest motivation during the shoot - to try and accomplish this inversion (‘audio follows video’ into ‘video follows audio’) which actually doesn’t create something new, but makes explicit a relationship that images and sound always had between them.

I think that what I look for in filmmaking is to treat the film as an object, something that exists in the world, instead of something which has no materiality of its own. In DAS DORES I believe to have accomplished something like that - even if the spectator gets up and leaves the cinema, (s)he will probably not be bored/affected by the contend of the film, but rather by its very form -  the materiality of the film, rendered visible by the repetitions. This materiality is a register that the film shares with the audience.

Anyway, I do hope that no one feels the need to leave the cinema.

I also want to thank everyone involved in the idealization and realization of this project, specially my wife, my father, Clara and my sister. This film is dedicated to them.

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