Drifts (Portuguese film)
Drifts (Derivas) is a Portuguese feature-length film by Ricardo Costa (autobiography, comedy, docufiction, metafiction).
It is the second independent film from an autobiographical sequel trilogy on Time and human wanderings.[1] 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 it is the second one.[2] The third and last film of the sequel is Cliffs (Arribas), in which the protagonist goes back to his homeland in a time travel.[3]
Plot
“A portrait of Lisbon drawn through the peregrinations of two unfitted venerable brothers across the city."
Production
- Producer Ricardo Costa (RC filmes)
- Production year – 2009/2013
- Locations – Lisbon, Portugal
- National permiere – 15 January 2016, organized by the University of Évora cine-club
- Release – 2016 (waiting)
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
- Fernando Correia de Oliveira : the Time historian
- Paulo Crawford : the astrophysicist
- Helder Costa : Lunetas
- Duarte Silva : le jeune homme perturbé
- Guya Accornero : historian
- Goffredo Adinolfi : historian
- Lígia Pereira : herself
- Argentina : herself
- Quim : himself
- Lisbon dwellers
Credits
- Script – Ricardo Costa
- Director – Ricardo Costa
- Editing – Ricardo 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 [4]
Notes and references
Related
- Dérive
- 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