Imaginary Friends [Temps d’Images]

Imaginary Friends [Temps d’Images]
Gaivotas Em Terra

Rita Barbosa

Imaginary Friends [Temps d’Images]

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Friday-Saturday •

Duration: 70min
Age-range: 12

Booking: 7€ • 5€ [Discount]

ARTISTIC DIRECTION Rita Barbosa
SOUND DESIGN Rui Lima and Sérgio Martins, WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF Jonathan Saldanha
PERFORMANCE Rui Lima, Sérgio Martins and Daniel Pizamiglio
TECHNICAL DIRECTION Pedro Lima
STAGE DIRECTION Helena Ribeiro
LIGHT DESIGN Mário Bessa
PRODUCTION Henrique Figueiredo
POSTER AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Dayana Lucas and Pedro Nora
PHOTOGRAPHY Jorge Quintela
1º CAMERA ASSISTANT Miguel Ângelo
2º CAMERA ASSISTANT Bruno Medeiros

FINANCIAL SUPPORT Câmara Municipal do Porto, SPA e AGECOP
SUPPORT O Espaço do Tempo, Take It Easy, Planar, Teatro do Bolhão, Circolando, Mala Voadora
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS António Selas, Cláudia Santos, Dayana Lucas, Daniel Oliveira, Daniel Ribas, Ana Paula Sousa, Ekaterina Solomina, Janine Lamas, Joaquim Fernandes, Jorge Garcia, José Manuel Castro, Maria-na Dixe, Paula Marques, Pedro Nora, Sofia Arriscado and Joana Dilão.

Imaginary Friends is a documentary and a performance, which invites the audience to watch a documentary film during its post-production phase with live addition of sound effects in a Foley studio. It is a reflection on what cinema can become while exploiting an effect most widely used for construction of believable illusions.

The film aims at disillusioning preventing them from forgetting the unreality and the tricks used to create the magic of cinema, to make them believe that all is true.

The amateur film-maker and three Foley artists make a score out of the film. While the performers are obsessively seeking to literally reproduce the noises produced by objects and beings in the film, instead they are unmaking the illusion, uncovering the mechanisms used to create a lie. The director uses the opportunity to play with possibilities, experimenting with narratives that range from the visual world of small and playful stories to the narrative world created through comments of a restless producer.

The nature of images and sounds is based on a collection of documentary and fictional notes contrasting the images created by the documentary and by the performance. As if in a neo-cubist space, the truth is freed from an unreflecting perception, opening the way to invoking spirits – the imaginary friends.

[Foley is a process of creating sound effects recorded in a studio, where sounds of steps, closing doors, thunderclaps etc. are reproduced by sound designers alongside the film with the purpose of making the scenes appear more realistic.]

Daniel Pizamiglio (Fortaleza, Brazil) is a performer and choreographer. He was trained in both Brazil and Portugal in composition, dance and performance. Between 2015/2016 he completed the Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Program (PEPCC) at Fórum Dança (Lisbon). He has been living in Lisbon since 2012, where he has collaborated with different artists and choreographers, such as Cláudia Dias, Cristina Maldonado, Calos Manuel Oliveira, Inês Cartaxo, Leonardo Mouramateus, Liedewij van Eijk, Sílvia Pinto Coelho and Tamara Cubas. As a performer, highlights include his work with João Fiadeiro in the theory and practice of Composition in Real Time and on the piece O Que Fazer Daqui Para Trás (What To Do With What Remains) (2015); and with João dos Santos Martins on the pieces Projecto Continuado (Continued Project) (2015) and Companhia (Company) (2018). Currently, he is planning the creation of a conferenceperformance with Romain Teule and a collaboration on the project Entre Cães e Lobos (Between Dogs and Wolves) (premiere anticipated for 2019) by Gustavo Ciríaco. Among his original work as a choreographer he highlights his latest solo work Dança Concreta (Concrete Dance) (2016).

Jonathan Saldanha is a sound and scenic constructor who approaches pre-linguistic elements, crystallization, animism and eco in his work. He is the co-creator of the stage pieces NYARLATHOTEP, MÁQUINA DA SELVA, REI TRIOLOGY and DEL, shown at spaces such as the Rivoli Municipal Theatre of Porto, Accès(s) Festival and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. Since 2010, he has composed a series of pieces for voice, electronics and resonant space such as: TEUFEL RADAR for chorus and antenna; KHŌROS ANIMA for chorus, sub-bass and factory space; SANCTA VISCERA TUA for gesture, percussion, termites and chorus, based on the archetypes of a Via Sacra, and SILVO UMBRA for chorus, scintillating sheen and spherical space. He belongs to the production duo FUJAKO, directs the project HHY & The Macumbas, and was the founder of the collective SOOPA, an arts platform that releases music and schedules concerts and performances, which he started in 1999, in Porto. He has performed concerts at festivals such as Sónar, Primavera Sound, Amplifest, Out.Fest, Milhões de Festa, Neopop and Elevate, and in spaces such as Ancienne Belgique in Bruxelas, Berghain Kantine in Berlin, Stubnitz in Hamburg, Filmerla Musique in Paris and Issue Project Room in New York. His music has been released by Ångström, Tzadik, Rotorelief, SiloRumor and Wordsound. His film/essay MÁQUINA DA SELVA / MUNDO DE CRISTAL was released by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.

Rita Barbosa, is a Director holding a Bachelor´s Degree in the Digital Arts from the Sound and Image course at UCP (2002). She wrote and directed the short film À Noite Fazem-se Amigos (Friends After Dark), which had its international premiere at the Locarno Festival, and has been represented as an advertising director by Take It Easy since 2005. She has collaborated in the creation, visual conception, video and scenography on various projects in the areas of theatre, dance and performance, among which are: Três Dedos Abaixo do Joelho (Three Fingers Below the Knee) by Tiago Rodrigues (awarded best theatre show of 2012 by SPA); Sabotagem (Sabotage) by Lígia Soares and Miguel Castro Caldas and O Esplêndido (Splendid) by Andresa Soares. She has directed experimental videos such as Get Bent and Pop Fish, shown at exhibitions and festivals such as the Cartier Foundation, Impakt and Courtisane.

Rui Lima was born in 1981. He holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Lighting and Sound Design from ESMAE, where he currently lectures. At the same time, and in collaboration with Sérgio Martins, he has participated as a music composer on performative arts shows and dance videos, and highlights those directed by: Joana Providência, Paulo Calatré, Inês Vicente, Alfredo Martins, Júnior Sampaio, João Garcia Miguel, Ana Luena (Teatro Bruto), Jorge Andrade (Mala Voadora), Cristina Carvalhal, Rita Lello, Andresa Soares, Victor Hugo Pontes, Nuno Cardoso, Miira Sippola and Marco Ferreira. He has shown his work in countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Israel, Macedonia, Finland, Brazil and Russia. As a musician/performer, he has participated on several experimental projects, and is currently a member ofthe musical projects Wet Thatcher and Ekco Deck. For cinema, he did the original soundtrack for the film Veneno Cura (Poison Cures) (2007), directed by Raquel Freire, and the short films Ausstieg (Exit) (2010) and Sobre El Cielo (Over El Cielo) (2015) by Jorge Quintela.

Sérgio Martins was born in 1982. He completed the Classical Guitar course at the Porto Music Conservatory, and is currently finishing the course in Electronic Music and Musical Production at the Superior School of Applied Arts in Castelo Branco, with Carlos Guedes, Mário Barreiros, Rui Dias and Gustavo Costa, among others, as his advisors. At the same time, and in collaboration with Rui Lima, he has been working as a music composer for the performative arts, dance videos, cinema and advertising since 2001, having worked with directors and choreographers such as Joana Providência, Paulo Calatré, Inês Vicente, Alfredo Martins, Júnior Sampaio, João Garcia Miguel, Ana Luena (Teatro Bruto), Jorge Andrade (Mala Voadora), Cristina Carvalhal, Rita Lello, Andresa Soares, Victor Hugo Pontes, Nuno Cardoso and Miira Sippola. He has shown his work in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, England, Israel, Macedonia, Macau, Finland, Brazil, Poland and Russia. In cinema, he composed the soundtrack for the film Veneno Cura (Poison Cures) (2007), directed by Raquel Freire, and the short films Ausstieg (Exit) (2010), O Amor É A Solução Para A Falta De Argumento (Love is the Answer for the Lack of Argument) (2011) and Sobre El Cielo (Over El Cielo) (2015), directed by Jorge Quintela.