2022  ·  Portugal  ·  Documentary

Enjoy the Weather: The Film

STATUS: Released

Enjoy the Weather: The Film

  • 2022
  • Portugal
  • Documentary
  • English, French
  • English, French
  • 32 mins
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Enjoy the Weather began as a choreographic research project led by Portuguese choreographer and dancer Teresa Silva during a residency in Marseille (Montevideo). Today, it is an exemplary film of the most unique things that can be achieved by combining the arts of image and the moving body. The starting point is a reading of Emanuele Coccia's The Life of Plants. In it, the philosopher adopts the perspective of plants to imagine a new understanding of the world as a living system connecting all beings, animate and inanimate. This hypothesis is embodied in a succession of tableaux in which four dancers lend their gestures to new relationships with image and sound. A common thread weaves a web between bodies with a floating embodiment, in a courtyard traversed by gusts of wind. Four voices, off-camera but situated, take turns reading a strange ecological tale, whose narrative unfolds a farandole of non-human beings interacting with the seasons and the variations in the weather. In the image, two men and two women pace the space, their arms caught in a hypnotic movement that seems to unwind and rewind the invisible thread of the story. In the following painting, hands coordinate their gestures to revive a still life. Fluctuations in superimpositions, variations in shadow or color filters: infinite plastic variations affect the bodies and disturb their relationship to space. "School could be everything. Everything could be school": thus began the tale. What is offered here to our astonished senses is nothing less than the dream or utopia of a universal pedagogy.

Credits

Director
Teresa Silva
Writer
Teresa Silva
Producer
Vítor Alves Brotas, Lou Colombani

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