The Other

Paula
In the 90´s and 00´s I used to go for several months to my family´s farm on the countryside. There were many hidden places where i loved to go. It was such an adventure. I could spend hours and hours exploring. Once, when i was eleven years old, I decided to explore at nighttime. I will never forget that walk. My brother, 2 years older, decided to come with me. It was awfully dark, he was holding a small torch. While we were walking, we started listening some creepy noises. I swear i could felt the presence of something or someone else. We were really far from the house, at the huge reedbed, when we pointed our torch at some cane plants and immediately we heard a weird voice and steps of someone running away from us. We screamed deeply and ran back to the house. What was that? Was it a person? Or an animal? Or maybe product of our young and creative imagination?
Since that day, only thinking about the reedbed gave me the shivers. So, i decided that someday i would make a film about it.
When i met Thomas Nascimento, a passionate and sensitive brazilian director, i knew we had to do this film together; and the reedbed should be an important part of it. We talked about the voices in everyone´s heads, the unwanted shivers, the complexity of the human psychology; and we immediately started writing the script.

Thomas
As an artist and film-maker everything I do in life derives from the idea I'm alive. If I'm alive, I'm completely in love. Everything around me has importance, and I believe we need to give more emphasis to vital issues; this is being lost with time. Without the moral and ethical compasses we create by ascribing value to humanity’s issues, we become desensitized and more skeptical. In such a world-context I would likely die. I don’t know if I could live in an insensible world. I draw my inspiration from the sensitivities, and sensibilities of a world built on the senses, denotatively and connotatively – from brushing my teeth to composing quick texts to the intensest moments I’ve captured. And living by this principle I’m driven to expose myself artistically in a diverse array of related forms. Articulating Humanity’s sincerest emotions through people’s feelings as they’re formed makes me magnificently happy. We need to stop whatever we’re in the midst of, look around us and realize we can be, and we are living in a more poetic way. The day I don’t feel empathetic interest and inspiration for/from others’ lives, my world will be void and the embodiment of Nietze’s tupiniquim.