The Cypress Dance
Filmmakers from the North, the duo hailing from Viana do Castelo, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, create projects for both cinema and galleries and linger immersed in Portuguese nature and landscape. With meadows and the sea, the sky, rocks, and thickets at their disposal, and with the friendly family of painter Mariana Barrote as their actors, they create a poem about the sensual nature of the world. When unrestrained imagination meets the material coil of reality, anything seems possible.
Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela
We began our sharing and collaboration in Porto and have been working as an artist duo since 2010. Our practice is developed with a privileged use of moving images, materialized through films and immersive and site-specific environments, in conjunction with drawing, painting, photography or sculpture. The dialogue between the biological, the vernacular and the cultural are recurrent elements in our research, acting as symbols to interpret and relate to the world. (Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela)
Filmography
2014 A Trama e o Círculo / The Mesh and the Circle (short)
2018 Sombra Luminosa / Luminous Shadow (short)
2019 Domesticar Há Milénios (short)
2019 Spilt Milk (short)
2020 Taniec cyprysa / A Dança do Cipreste / The Cypress Dance (short)
2022 Subir e Sumir (short)
2022 Palomacia (short)
2022 Águas e Espelhos (short)