“This is Peter. Este é o Pedro. Remember Peter. He was born in Goa, to a wealthy and big family. He was raised in Goa. We found Peter in Lisbon inside a bag. Peter came unorganized, but inside of small boxes. Many small boxes. This small boxes had 30 years inside of them. This is how Peter arrived, he arrived trough windows. We travelled with Peter all around the world.
This is a story of Peter that we saw, but still prefer to imagine.”

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“The Land of Lost Content” is a fictional-documentary show that spans voluntary and involuntary memories. The documents found led to the reconstruction of a faceless character, Peter, a Goan traveler who opens windows for a time that does not exist, for places that no longer exist exactly like this. As are the memories throughout life: of a landscape, of a song. They are also the gateway to understanding a stranger who has come into our lives through slides and super 8 – material that has been voted obsolescent but full of content. Considering that memories are the fruit of individual experience and a point of view, and are therefore partial and reflective of our snapshots, we remember not how it happened, but how we understand it happened. Or places where we have also been and those where we have never been or only heard about, building an unexperienced memory.

The construction of the show takes place on two levels: in one line we go through the constant attraction for a cinematic alignment at a partisan rhythm, in another accompanies the need to intervene with the images and texts created in a performance act.

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direction Mirró Pereira
artists (co-creation) Daniel Moutinho, Feliciano Branco, Gisela Duque Pereira, Joana Barros, Joana von Bonhorst, João Gambino, Mirró Pereira, Pedro Costa
with Joana Barros, Mirró Pereira
production PlateiaParalela Associação
co-production Inestética Companhia Teatral
artist residencies Palácio do Sobralinho, Inestética no Sobralinho, 13 a 19 Fevereiro 2017; Grândola, 5 a 9 de Março 2017
this production had the kind support from CML/ Pólo das Gaivotas + Centro dos Direitos Sociais