Drifts (film)
Drifts (Derivas) is a Portuguese feature-length film by Ricardo Costa (autobiography, comedy, docufiction, metafiction, experimental film [1][2] ). It is the second independent film from an autobiographical sequel trilogy on Time and human wanderings.[3]
The film is set in Lisbon, city which it portrays. Mists (opened at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and released in New York at the Quad Cinema in 2011) is the first film of this trilogy. After Mists, Drifts is the second one.[4] The third and last film of the sequel is Cliffs (Arribas), film in production, in which the protagonist goes back to his homeland in a time travel.[5]
Plot
"A portrait of Lisbon drawn through the peregrinations of two unfitted venerable brothers across the city." (Cit. producer)
Production
- Producer Ricardo Costa (RC filmes)
- Production – 2009/2013 [6]
- Post-production – 2014/2016
- Locations – Lisbon, Portugal
- National permiere – 15 January 2016, organized by the University of Évora [7]
- World release – 2016
NOTE: «Self-financed film with the collaboration of students from several Lisbon film schools and universities, close friends, trustful citizens, private and public institutions». CIT producer's words
Cast
- Ricardo Costa : Ricardo (the photographer) and his brother António (the clockmaker)
- Joana Duque : Mariana
- Luis Cousinha : Antonio’s clockmaker friend himlself
- Fernando Correia de Oliveira : the Time historian himself
- Paulo Crawford : the astrophysicist himself
- Helder Costa : Lunetas
- Duarte Silva : the crazy young man
- Guya Accornero : historian, herself
- Goffredo Adinolfi : historian, himself
- Lígia Pereira : herself
- Argentina : herself
- Quim : himself
- Lisbon dwellers: themselves
Credits
- Script – Ricardo Costa
- Director – Ricardo Costa
- Editing – Ric\ardo Costa, Pedro Caldeira
- Cinematography and camera – Miguel Serra, Ricardo Costa
- Sound operators – Nuno Cruz, Nuno Sopa, Pedro Melo, Ana Reis
- Camera assistants – Hugo Alho, Miguel Malheiros, Edivaldo Simões, Ana Teles, Ricardo Duarte, Nuno Antoniotti, António Marques, David Marques, João Brandão, others
- Co-editor, technical assistant, DCP builder – Pedro Caldeira [8]
related
genres
concepts
- Dérive
- Flâneur
- Theory of the Dérive (urban drifts) at Bureau of Public Secrets
- What can we expect beyond the human, (future technologies) article by Bert Oliver at Thought Leader
films
- TAXI, a film on Tehran by Jafar Panahi (2015)
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ The Situationist International and the Theory of the Derive : "The concept of the derive was promoted as a strategy aimed at enabling people on an individual level to work with others to identify and chronicle those areas of cities which provided evidence of phenomena resistant to mainstream commercial society." Citation at City College of San Francisco, among other relevant references
- ↑ The derive, chapter from ‘Critical Theories of Mass Media Then and Now’ by Paul Taylor and Jan Harris at Google books
- ↑ Faraways
- ↑ Drifs – illustrated page
- ↑ Cliffs web page
- ↑ Drifts news by Fernando de Oliveira, journalist and historian on Time, 12 June 2012 (pt)
- ↑ National premiere organised by the Universidade de Évora on 15 January 2016
- ↑ Drifts – note and trailer