Synopsis

The world of photographer, artist and poet Fernando Lemos, is a world ferociously stripped of any external logic, says his friend Jorge de Sena, and his work is strongly influenced by surrealism. "What I most admire in surrealism is this sense of total freedom, a kind of dream, or delusion",  said the artist. Starting from the photograph of a girl taken by Lemos at a fair in 1949, he returns to Portugal to find his model almost 60 years after having captured the image. This fortuity is also a starting point for another journey: the one that takes us back to his photographic work and to surrealism. The documentary presents us with the testimonies of Sophia de Mello Breyner, António Pedro, Mário de Cesariny and Jorge de Sena, friends, companions and great names of Portuguese culture.

Best Portuguese Film about Art at the Temps d'Image Festival 2011 (Portugal).

The director will participate in the debate following the screening.

Bio note

Luís Alves de Matos - Graduated in Film Directing at the Higher School of Theatre and Cinema, Lisbon, he has collaborated since 1993 on different contemporary creation projects and has since made several documentary films about Portuguese artists. In 2001 he founded the production company Amatar Filmes, continuing production and independent production of documentaries in the field of contemporary art and experimental films.

He was awarded in 1999 at the X International Meetings of Documentary Cinema of Malaposta with the documentary A Fazer o Mal and distinguished, in 2008 and 2011, with the Best Portuguese Film Prize of the Temps D 'Images Film Awards respectively with the films Lost in Art - Looking For Wittgenstein and Luz Teimosa.

Activity under the Transdisciplinary PhD Programme "Discourses: History, Culture and Society".