2024 | Portugal | Experimental

Happy Ending

  • 6 mins
  • Director | Tiago Madaleno, Joana Patrão
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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“Happy ending” is part of the ongoing project “Glossolalia”, which proposes the construction of a common place by subverting the individualistic tradition of the road-movie. Taking as its motto the fiction of a couple who find an idea of ​​home on their road trips, the video explores the place of duration in an unrepresentable space beyond the resolution of the happy ending (a convention that marks the end of the dramatic interest of a story). Through repetition and looping, it plays with the archetype of the tunnel (a space of transition and transformation), remaining in a state of transition, between escape and ecstasy, light and darkness, speed and continuity. Unpredictable elements such as reflections and optical effects, radio sounds and interferences, laughter and breathing, become symbols of being on the road, where directions are influenced by

Home Journey Passage Continuity Transformation
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