COUP DE GRÂCE (2017)
HD video, 2:39, color, Dolby 5.1 sound, 25 min., Portugal
Production: O Som e a Fúria
Additional support: ETIC, Repsol, Pingo Doce, Infraestruturas de Portugal, CP Comboios de Portugal
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Lisboa Film Commission
In Coup de Grâce, Leonor returns from a trip on a day where her dad wasn’t expecting her. They will live a crescendoing hallucinated reality in twenty-four hours, led by Francisco’s unsettling state of apparent normality.
The project was self-initiated.
O Som e a Furia
SOLTA (2026)
HD video, 2:39, color, Dolby 5.1 sound, 2 min., PortugalProduction: Lalamand
Produced with materials from Coup de Grace (2017)
In the gap between solta — release, the unbound, the free — and the closed loop it names, migration is staged as instrumentalized return, and freedom as the most disciplined form of obedience. What looks like liberation is its opposite: homing birds bred so that flight serves only to return.
