ESSENCE ON TIME FRAMES

With a career in which creativity was overshadowed by the work as a camera operator, I decided to take a License degree in Cinema, in Lisbon, at the Lusofona University, so that with the knowledge already acquired, both in theory and in practice, I could put on screen what I want to show to the World.
I had 2 lesser forays in independent cinema, directed two short films, produce and direct this third, which was by far the best achieved, in terms of narrative, script, and even though photography is not the strong point of the film, I think is in accordance with a quality needed to have a well succeeded.
In fact, the short film project is a success, exceeding expectations even for those who appeal to the image department.
For reasons of the saturation over the People about the relation Public | Image in movement (Films) on our common days, instead of putting important issues that should be talked in a movie for the audiences, slowly and progressively are losing a lot, for issues pointed out above.
Narrative? Is the Essence on a film. Does it matters for the audience? Not as we want. Not as other seasons | years. Not to the big audience.
After 2 years of writing screenplays, with so much raw material that i can find to apply in Cinema, and with the desire that i had already some time to film in the middle of the biggest Avenue in Portugal, this one with a name who inspired the short film Essence on Time Frames, Avenida da Liberdade.
In the short film Essence on Time Frames, my passion for languages have a natural enfase, given in original words, "ecstasy" (original greek word for "transe" or in the exact meaning, "out of him / me"), leading us to soul / mind, who is said on the short film, the relation with the Original word and also touching other substances. Adamah (Hebrew) or even words that the audience understands only by the sense of the script, like "perene", which gives the meaning of "strong".
Portugal is one country that gives tremendous importance to the Portuguese Language is perhaps one of its greatest Patrimony and for it has become a challenge to make the text in English, but as I have said several times and always in defense of the Short Film, the subjects and expressions that I intend to assume, would hardly have the dynamism and the meaning that i want if it were spoken in Portuguese.
And more, the commun meaning of expressions in English, embrace and one diversity that brakes the limits of a portuguese language.
Living in a World situation that may turn chaotic in a question of hours, the urgency to do something and the will to give force to persons who have something to say and to inspire them, as Maryana says in the film, to have their conscience awakening, aware, shaken and something that could give them one identity.
There is why a surprise in the final plot or climax of this short film. From the identification with the character Maryana and on her words, with an environment that could provide a total and unexpected surprise and a complete turn on 180º, so sudden, so terrible, so "naked and ruff", into a peaceful, intense, and loved plot, putting Maryana in a very special neverending kind of reality. Her will? Our will? Or someone's will? Everyone's will. An open narrative gives us the chance to think about what could happen more. In that special future that this short film project is involved and the way he involves that audience. The love that I want that the audience feels for her, and the involvement in her words going to make them want to know and hear more from her.
With the aim of making matters as special as the Essence that makes us live, speak, observe the Good or Evil, the Light or Darkness and the Eternal questions that we think when we are alone, the suffering, the solutions that we search or is mainly our day-to-day affairs, with which we live every day, often dependent on the decisions of others, often different decisions that don't make part of our objectives and that affect us a lot, being able to ask us if we will ever be able to see our true Essence, or if we can ever enjoy a Freedom, which we should all have since we born. We are all born free and no conscious person inflicts on himself own suffering, and much for the decisions of others.
The conclusions that the audience could take by seeing this short film, so like the new perspectives from a new cinema generation, with a narrative where the time is relative and according to our minds is pretty much acceptable, with all the respect to a reality, fiction and the audience on the middle. The timelapses or the cut in time that the cinema could bring to the audience is one of the most fantastic things. And audience approval and love for what they see is one objective, meaning a good film and good cinema, give a new form to see the World. Maybe new perspectives from the future. In the past, because cinema stay forever and he was not if wasn't done.
When I wrote the screenplay for the Short Film, I have the perfect conscience that I do not live alone in the World, which awakened me even more about the necessity of taking care of some subject on canvas about what is done during the time to a World that already suffered the sufficient and probably was not by our choice. Innocent? No. A Sinner, yes. Not a criminal. I want to believe on that. In fact I do not defend wars, nor do I send thousands of soldiers to the front lines. nor do I command to make bombs of massive destruction that threaten Humanity. "When all Man realizes that the word Peace and Love are not just mere words invented and know and we all have this need, maybe the World will be better. You have to know that all Man and the World urgently seek and need those forms and to feel the meaning of those words. Take the decisions with which you govern from it. It is not objectives, it is Fundaments".
Maybe one day, always on Cinema.